Paul, at 08:20 on Feb 15 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

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.  

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

PE> No it isn't.  You lock the speed by setting your comms 
PE> software to a particular speed, whilst making sure that 
PE> Courier has &B1 in it (not necessarily in NVRAM either).  Try 
PE> it on an outgoing call and you'll find it works a treat.  You 
PE> can do it on an ingoing call too, just make sure you have 
PE> done at ATS0=0 or some other harmless command.

For Christ's sake! check page C-6 in the manual.  Read the description of
ATI5 - it displays the NVRAM settings.  One of these is the speed that the
modem will use to communicate incomming calls to the computer.  It is set
with AT&W.

. . .[chomp]. . .

PE> Oh, and then explain why the way the USR is doing it makes 
PE> any sense whatsoever, and how it could possibly be better 
PE> than the way Rockwell do it.  ie, the USR is fucked by 
PE> design.

Different = fucked?
 

David
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