Jim Lawler said the following to All on the subject of
Help/Modem Troubles. (21 Aug 97  02:25:11)
 JL> When I run Modem
 JL> Doctor  for Windows, the carrier test comes back with 33 receive errors
 JL> and tells me that my DTE is not locked and to see my modems docs for
 JL> help...but  the docs say nothing about locking my DTE. AS a matter of
 JL> fact I never heard of "locking" my computer to my modem. I thought the
 JL> UART was suposed  to take care of all that.
No, a uart is a dumb device which has only enough smarts to convert
serial data received at various speeds into the parallel form that the
PC's internal I/O bus uses. What has the smarts to use the uart is the
terminal communications software. Modern high speed modems also have
some smarts. Accordingly both the comm software and the modem are set to
a locked DTE at the highest optimal speed the computer can manage.
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