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First post, by mbbrutman

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I know that some of you are using EtherSlip, as the WiFi serial port adapters can be flashed with a SLIP firmware. I found a bug in EtherSlip a few months ago, and I've finally gotten around to posting a fix and the new executable. The bug can cause data corruption or crashes depending on where it hits in memory. The fixed version of EtherSlip can be found at https://www.brutman.com/Device_Drivers/packet … rSlip_v11.8.zip . I also one smaller bug in it.

Please spread the word. People shrug their shoulders when DOS crashes. I'm trying to fix that one bug at a time. ;-0

That's the short story. If you want the longer story on what happened, I wrote it up here: https://www.brutman.com/Adventures_In_Code/Et … erSlip_ARP.html

If you have the slightest interest in programming (and debugging!) under DOS, you may enjoy reading that.

Reply 1 of 2, by EduBat

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I don't use etherslip but that write up was an awesome read. Thanks!

ps: small typo here: "High level languages like C hide mode of this complexity from you"

Reply 2 of 2, by mbbrutman

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Fixed. 😀