PC Terminal Settings
These are the relevant PC terminal settings used to download files from an
IBM-PC to the EyeBot. You may use Windows Terminal Emulator, DOS Kermit, or Hyperterm on Windows95, among others.
Windows Terminal
Terminal Preferences/Terminal Modes/Local Echo = off
Settings/Communications/Baud Rate = 57600 (Max)
Settings/Communications/Data Bits = 8
Settings/Communications/Parity = None
Settings/Communications/Stop Bits = 1
- WITH RTS/CTS FLOW CONTROL on EYEBOT (Download Progress Report):
- Settings/Communications/Flow Control = Hardware
- Settings/Text Transfers/Flow Control = Line at a Time
- Settings/Text Transfers/Delay Between Lines = 0/10 Sec
- WITH NO FLOW CONTROL on EYEBOT (Download faster, No Progress Report):
- Settings/Communications/Flow Control = None
- Settings/Text Transfers/Flow Control = Standard Flow Control
DOS Kermit
In the DOS Kermit program, you may make a customized initialization file, called
MSCUSTOM.INI in the same directory as MSKERMIT.INI. The following parameters
are needed:
set port 1 (Use COM1)
set speed 57600 (Transmission speed)
set parity none (No Parity)
set terminal display 8 (Terminal byte size for 8-bit chars)
set local off (No echo to PC screen (faster))
set printer nul (Use if no printer on PC)
- WITH RTS/CTS FLOW CONTROL on EYEBOT (Download Progress Report):
- set flow RTS/CTS (Hardware flow control)
- set transmit prompt \0 (Do not wait between transmitted lines)
- WITH NO FLOW CONTROL on EYEBOT (faster):
- set flow none (No flow control)