Bill, at 09:57 on Feb 04 1996, you wrote to Paul Edwards ...

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BG> Also, just indulge me for a moment Paul, and tell me why 
BG> you'd ever want to change your locked serial port speed 
BG> (which also means editing binkley.cfg, your MODE command, 
BG> and the modem's NVRAM).  If 57600 bps works IOW, why would 
BG> you bother changing it ?

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PE>> It decides to send "RING" to the computer at a rate other 
PE>> than 38400 though.  Fucked, either by design or by a bug.

BG> I fail to see why it should want to do that though.  Please 
BG> explain.

BG> Dunno why you choose to do it that way, but it's your 
BG> system, so I guess you can basically do whatever you bloody 
BG> well like with it.  :)

I have discovered that if I give the modem a few belts with a 2kg hammer it
falls to bits.  This behaviour is NOT documented in the manuals or the
online help screens therefor it must be a design fault or a bug.  Does the
newer SDL stop this behaviour?

David
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