I can plot small drawings, but larger drawings fail with spurious lines after a few minutes. What is going wrong?
It sounds like the input buffer on your serial plotter may be overflowing, resulting in lost data from WinLINE. If you are using a serial cable attached to your computer: • Go back to Serial Communications Answer #1! Get the right cable for your plotter! • Then go back to Serial Communications Answer #2! Configure Windows to use hardware Flow Control! If you are using some other transport such as a network, ask your system administrator to ensure that your communications setup is configured to stop transmitting data while the buffer on your plotter is full or while your plotter is in a busy state. If hardware flow control isn’t working because your cable is too simple (like three wires) and your plotter supports XON/XOFF flow control, and you are adventurous and you like following instructions, you can configure Windows and WinLINE to use XON/XOFF Flow Control. For this to work you need to set XON/XOFF both in Windows and on your plotter. For HP pen plotters, you can configure WinLINE
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