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echo: aust_modem
to: Ian Smith
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-02-23 09:01:40
subject: netcomm online!

PE> Whoops, this was a deadly combination.  After 7 aborted calls, none
PE> of which returned a "CONNECT" string, but instead other stuff to
PE> signify connection, I can document:

PE> Correction, Binkley, after reporting "RINGING", and then a
PE> few lines of stats from the connect, decides to swallow the
PE> rest of the lines.  When I dialed manually, there were
PE> actually about 7 lines of connect messages, then the CONNECT

IS> FAQ .. 'RingTries 10' or so in binkley.cfg will fix that, even with v2.50.  

I had a smile on my face when I saw that parameter when I was looking
at the code.  The smile disappeared when I found mine was set to 40.

IS> Bink regards any incoming non-CONNECT line during dialout as if it were a 
IS> 'RINGING' line, and the default for RingTries is 3 or 4.  Everyone with a 
IS> Rockwell modem with S95 setup to give full responses has run into this one.

I don't know where my "40" figure came from, it may have been
the default, or it may have been what I was told to use by my
old boss.  

Not to worry, nothing that changing a strnicmp to strncmp can't
fix!  Thank god for source code!  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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