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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Bill Grimsley
date: 1996-02-07 07:46:18
subject: USR Courier

Paul, at 08:39 on Feb 05 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> OK, I'm beginning to understand what you mean now.  I'm far too polite to 
BG> suggest that you could have explained yourself a little more clearly 
BG> though.

PE> Oh, poppycock.

Sure Paul, whatever you say.

BG> I suppose I can see where you're coming from, but given that I can't 
BG> understand why anybody would even consider running their modem at 57600 
BG> while their serial port was locked at 38400, I'd prefer to call it a simple 
BG> oversight.

PE> You still haven't got this right.  I am running my modem AND my
PE> serial port locked at 38400.  It just so happens that the speed
PE> of my last save to NVRAM was 57600, but this should be
PE> IRRELEVANT, so long as I send an AT command to my modem on
PE> startup, which I do.  It is not possible to run a modem at 57600
PE> with a serial port at 38400.  They have to match speeds, otherwise
PE> you get garbage.

And this is the entire basis of your "complaint", right ?  If
this is the most important thing in your life right now, I pity you.

Regards, Bill

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