Paul, at 10:26 on Feb 11 1996, you wrote ...

PE>> If it is, it's fucked by design.  Name one bit of software 
PE>> that will wait for the modem to respond at 38400, and then 
PE>> quickly switch up to 57600 in case a ring comes through?

DD>> Name one sane person who would lock their modem at 57,600 
DD>> and then promptly set their software to 38,400 to 
DD>> communicate with it . . .

PE> The modem was never locked at 57600, it merely happened to 
PE> be the speed the com port was set at at the last &W.  

That is how you lock the speed into the Courier . . . .

PE> That 
PE> actually happened on my DOS system, and on my OS/2 system 
PE> the rate was set to 38400 (which is what I wanted).  Then I 
PE> had planned on changing it to 57600, and perhaps 115200 one 
PE> day, as an experiment.  So now I've told you the reason why I
PE>  chop and change baud rates as required.  Now you name the 
PE> software that jumps up from 38400 to 57600 after issuing an 
PE> ATZ. 

None that I know of.  I still want to know why you would set your software
to 38,400 after you have locked your modem speed to 57,600?

David
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