[Xastir-Dev] Please try latest CVS code

[Curt Mills]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Stephen West-Fisher wrote:
>
> > I think you are correct, lengthening the timings works a lot better, I
> > don't see the GPS strings with the TNC packets.
> >
> > Timings was set at 10 sec, now is 60 sec.
>
> Ok.  In the interests of getting as much valid data decoded as
> possible, I'll investigate trying to blank the buffer at the
> switchover point.

Thinking about that some more, it's probably a bad idea.  kd7nm
pointed out to me that there may be data left in the serial port
rx buffer that hasn't been read out of the chip yet.  One of my
thoughts is that the corruption could occur in a TNC string and
change a position/symbol/callsign character, but will be printable.
For these reasons it's probably just best left alone, and we'll let
these concatenated strings get thrown away instead of using them.

One of the dangers of using HSP adapters!

If anyone comes up with a decent algorithm for salvaging the data
out of these strings while minimizing the possibility of using
corrupted data, let me know.

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