From 1eb474f2e60094e342a780f85cd9f9f018868bb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Black W9MDB <mdblack98@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:04:20 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Allow read_string_generic to timeout even when some chars
 have been received

---
 src/iofunc.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/iofunc.c b/src/iofunc.c
index 8ddeae459..4b38e5f2f 100644
--- a/src/iofunc.c
+++ b/src/iofunc.c
@@ -1258,7 +1258,8 @@ static int read_string_generic(hamlib_port_t *p,
 
         if (result == -RIG_ETIMEOUT)
         {
-            if (0 == total_count)
+            // a timeout is a timeout no matter how many bytes
+            //if (0 == total_count)
             {
                 /* Record timeout time and calculate elapsed time */
                 gettimeofday(&end_time, NULL);