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to: Paul Edwards
from: Bill Grimsley
date: 1995-12-24 22:22:26
subject: approved modems prices

Paul, at 14:34 on Sun, Jan 22 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

 BG> Numerous messages in USR_MODEMS of late, have indicated that 
 BG> the majority of Rockwell-based 28k8bps modems are being 
 BG> supplied with retrains disabled as their factory default 
 BG> state, and if the USR requests a retrain which is not 
 BG> acknowledged by the Rockwell, the modems will immediately 
 BG> drop DTR. The extremely simple (and immediate) workaround for 
 BG> this "problem" is to enable retrains by writing %E2 to the 
 BG> Rockwell's init$ (i.e. AT%E2&W).

 PE> And if you don't have any control over the Rockwell 
 PE> settings, is there something that can be done in the USR to 
 PE> stop it dropping out if a retrain it requests is not 
 PE> acknowledged?  BFN.  Paul.

No, as far as I can tell, retrains default to enabled in the Courier DS,
and if there is an S-register used to turn it off, it's apparently
undocumented.  Easier to make sure all of your Rockwell callers have
retrains enabled permanently.  It's no big deal anyway.

Regards, Bill

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