On Aug 23 21:11, 1997, Lloyd Buchfinck of 1:151/238 wrote:
LB> Last I heard one does not need to lock their DTE to make the modem work
LB> properly...
You heard wrong.  If you don't "lock" the port, and configure the modem to 
"autobaud", you lose all the benefits of the modem buffers, the increased 
throughput offered by error correction (if it'll even work in that 
configuration) and the benefit of data compression.
Rick
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