Re: [NTLK] [Dev] Docking Protocol

From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 00:11:05 PDT


On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Andy Galluzzi wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how does the docking protocol works, and don't
> get much idea. After reading Newton Formats 1.1, I don't fint the same
> thing when I try to connect with my Newton. The stream I receive in my
> COM port is 4 times this block of data:
>
> 16 10 02 26 - 01 02 01 06 - 01 00 00 00 - 00 FF 02 01
> 02 03 01 08 - 04 02 40 00 - 08 01 03 09 - 01 01 0E 04
> 03 04 00 FA - C5 06 01 04 - 00 00 E1 00 - 10 03 B9 BF
>
> Anybody know what does it mean and how to understand it? Do I have the
> right data or, by port configuration, the data shoud be different?

The data exchanged looks like what is in Newton Formats 1.1 and in the
Docking protocol specification you could find on my website indeed.

However, it is MNP-compressed over serial (it's not really compressed in
fact, it's rather a matter of putting redundancy).
Hence what you get.

Paul

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