# Help: Problems pasting text from main PC to Planck

**URL:** <https://forum.planck6502.com/t/help-problems-pasting-text-from-main-pc-to-planck/31>\
**Category:** Software\
**Created:** [December 7, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.planck6502.com/t/help-problems-pasting-text-from-main-pc-to-planck/31 "2023-12-07T23:29:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![benchapman](https://forum.planck6502.com/user_avatar/forum.planck6502.com/benchapman/32/17_2.png) [@benchapman](https://forum.planck6502.com/u/benchapman)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.planck6502.com/t/help-problems-pasting-text-from-main-pc-to-planck/31/1 "2023-12-07T23:29:22Z")

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I use minicom on my MacBook Air as my terminal program to connect to the Planck machine (115200 8N1). I have it set to no hardware or software flow control. I have tried various values of character delay and linefeed delay (Ctrl-A T in minicom’s menu) but I am regularly losing characters when I paste from the host system.

Does anyone have a suggested set of values for the character delay? Other suggestions?

Thank you! Ben

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**Author:** ![jonathan](https://forum.planck6502.com/user_avatar/forum.planck6502.com/jonathan/32/10_2.png) [@jonathan](https://forum.planck6502.com/u/jonathan)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.planck6502.com/t/help-problems-pasting-text-from-main-pc-to-planck/31/2 "2023-12-11T10:10:31Z")

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I use 3ms for the character delay and 30ms for the line delay. That seems to work fine. I use CoolTerm on the mac though, never could understand minicom.