[time-nuts] Hyperterminal with variable baud rate

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 19 05:56:11 UTC 2010


How far are you from a settable rate?    The whole beauty of asynchronous serial is that you can tolerate huge (5-10%) errors in timing

On Nov 18, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> 
>> Are there any terminal programs out there that allow you to select rates
>> other than the standard values?
> 
> I doubt if you will have much luck in that area, but please let me/us know if 
> you find something.
> 
> The API from user code to the kernel for the baud rate is usually pick one 
> from a small set.  (At least in Unix/Posix.)
> 
> 
>> I'd like to avoid any hardware kludges and hopefully make the fix in the
>> terminal software. 
> 
> Several ideas...
> 
> I



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