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FLOW CONTROL

 

This chapter contains information about

 

Hardware and software flow control

 

Received-data flow control

 

Transmit-data flow control

 

 

Overview

The Business Modem has two buffers, one for data transmitted from your

 

computer, and one for data received from the phone line.

 

Flow control provides a system for stopping and starting transmission

 

depending on how full the buffers are. Flow Control’s purpose is to

 

prevent overfilling the buffers, which may cause data to be lost.

 

We recommend that you use hardware flow control. If you do,

 

depending on your communications software, you will also need to

 

enable hardware flow control in your communications software.

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