RE: Stamp Out Code

["Albertson, Chris" <CAlbertson@primeadvantage.com>]

Tom,

I've not seen your "10 second delay problem".  I can send
data over the serial cable all day and it just "works" as
expected.  But then I don't have MS Windows on my computer.
You BASIC software runs fine under Linux.  I don't see this
as a problem to be solved.


<SNIP>
> For newcomers, there is a mystery 10 second wait.  If one tries to do 
> things on the RS-232 port, DOS/Windows will at arbitrary 
> times insert a 10 
> second wait.  Probably while they try to figure out how they 
> can sell me 
> something.  This means that if you try to make a 1 second exposure by 
> sending "OPEN" followed 1 second later by "CLOSE" you might 
> get 1 second, 
> you might get 11 seconds. Or something in between.  Or you 
> could get a 1 
> second exposure ten seconds later that you expected to get it.
<SNIP>