BG> Apparently it's only Paul who considers it a major problem anyway.

RS> He didnt say it was a major problem, just that it was a bug or stuffed
RS> by design. I agree with him, its just too quirky and counter intuitive.

BG> Then why has he been carrying on as if civilisation was about to end ?  If 

YOU have been carrying on like that.  All I did was document a bug
which took less than 10 minutes to find a workaround for.

BG> he'd bothered reading the manual as I suggested a couple of weeks ago, most 
BG> of these problems would never have occurred.

Oh yeah?  So which bit of the manual should I have read that would
have told me that the USR didn't autobaud, or at least, not on an
ATZ?  Make sure that whatever you quote says that after issuing an
"ATA", it will in fact connect and communicate at the auto-bauded
rate, and not the rate in NVRAM.  Good luck.  Do you really need to
resort to this Bill?

RS> You can certainly justify doing things like that if there is a good
RS> operational reason to do that, but in this case there isnt even any
RS> good reason to do it like that. AND if you choose to do it like that
RS> for a good reason, you MUST document the quirk very thoroughly to
RS> minimise the risk of it repeatedly biting people on the bum. USR doesnt.

BG> And that is the one thing with which I'll agree, the lack of documentation.

Admitted it before I've even finished the message.  Like wow, 
man!

BG> Given that they've been doing it that way for at least 9 years, I'd tend to 
BG> agree.  However, I also agree that the necessity of writing the baud rate 
BG> to NVRAM with &W after a change of port speed in the term should be far 
BG> better documented than it is right now.

Or even documented at all.  Which it isn't.  Because it isn't
true.  It's ONLY true if you have your init string set to ATZ
AND you have incoming calls.  In fact, it MAY even bee just the
word "RING".  What I really need to do is set S0=3 and then see
what happens when an incoming call comes.  The RINGs will be
garbage, but what about the CONNECT?  BFN.  Paul.
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