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echo: locsysop
to: Bill Grimsley
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-02-02 09:19:02
subject: USR Courier

DD> If you want your port & modem to lock at 38,400 you must send an
AT command 
DD> at 38,400 followed by an &W to write that speed to NVRAM.

PE> You just made that up.  The manual does not say what happens.

BG> Utter bullshit Paul!  The manual DOES say that, and quite explicitly.  Did 
BG> you read the extracts I posted yesterday, from the on-line text Courier 
BG> manual?

Indeed I did.  Maybe I should have said that a little more
graciously:

You just misinterpreted the manual.

PE> In fact, if you type ATZ at 38400, it WILL auto baud rate
PE> detect, and send the answer, "OK" back to the computer.  It
PE> decides to send "RING" to the computer at a rate other than
PE> 38400 though.  Fucked, either by design or by a bug.

BG> It's specific behaviour is controlled by the &Bn command.

Yeah, and I've got &B1, locked com port.  With "OK" coming in
at a different speed to "RING".

DD> USR Couriers work perfectly well at my place, especially when I dial my 
DD> host who uses someother brand modem.

PE> No they don't.  Not when Rod called you. 

BG> Of course, we all know that Rod's 5 year old, NON-APPROVED Supra is not 
BG> faulty, don't we?  :)

What we CERTAINLY know is that the Spirit was far more robust
with this REAL-WORLD modem.  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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