““éÌ v1.1 IO186 & TICK186.CMD are two diagnostic programs for the VIASYN/CompuPro SP186 to be ran concurrently, IO186 must run FIRST, then TICK186; best thing to do is to have these two pgms run from a BATch file. IO186 main function is to test the Serial Port on the SP186 Board; its secondary function is to hook up with TICK186 as to prove that these two processes can reside, and Run on the same SP186 board, at the same time. ! TESTS WORK WITH SINGLE SP186 BOARD IN SYSTEM ONLY ! tech talks only (event sequence): a) IO186 is run First, it will resides on Bank#0 by allocation default b) IO186 does simple Channel A-B cross transmitt-Receive multiple times c) IO186 writes the result of this serial channel test into Bank#1 space d) IO186 detaches from the console and WAIT for TICK186 to start running. e) TICK186 is run manually (you type in TICK186) or executes from BATch file it resides on Bank#1 by allocation default f) TICK186 picks up result of serial channel test left by IO186 and prints it. You get SERIAL PORT OK. g) TICK186 tells IO186 that it's done by setting a flag h) IO186 displays "reAttching, SP186 COOL !" and quits i) TICK186 quits $€>]?u º¹ Íàˌȩðtèκ5¹Íàº5¹/ÍàºA¹ ÍàË°%ææ°5ææ°Eææ¸@ŽÀ&Æ° ¹ ºÐÿQíŠÈ¾uè~ä$túŠÁæ¾Õènä$túä:ÁuR¾•è\ä$túŠÁæ¾µèLä$túä:Áu8Yâµ¾Yè7º|± Í౓Íà&€>° îuøº ± Íàº* ± Íà3É‹ÑÍà¾õè ëѾ'èëɿ𠬪<$uúñšÍà&‹_r‹û¾ètú ¹ Íà¹ÍàË‹î‹õƒÇ§u§u§u§uƒï÷ÇÿÿÃǃǃǃï&‹} ÿuÓÃCan't find SP86ALOC. Run INIT186 first. $SW186 IO186 Wait a minute... I'am not running in the SP186 ! $ Wait for Channal A Txmitter...$ Wait for Channel B Txmitter...$ Wait for Channel A ReCeiVer...$ Wait for Channel B ReCeiVer...$  FAILED when sending from channel A to B ! $  FAILED when sending from channel B to A ! $ -- SERIAL PORT OK -- $+=# GTASK#0 GIO186: Waiting for 2nd Bank...Dettaching=( ----------------------------------------------------------------- $=& reAttaching... sp186 COOL ! $=0 $