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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Bill Grimsley
date: 1996-01-31 07:19:40
subject: USR Courier

Paul, at 17:25 on Jan 30 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Please yourself then.  I'm trying to help, but you appear to have a 
BG> completely negative attitude towards anything I say or suggest.

PE> Let's see, so far you've suggested:

PE> 1. Supernatural beings have inhabited my unit.

No, just your mind.

PE> 2. My phone line just got incredibly bad, when before it was perfect.

Perfect for 14400 calls perhaps.  Says nothing about 28800 capability though.

PE> 3. Ignore any bugs in the USR, they're all features.

Like the DOCUMENTED difference re the port speed?  Sometimes it pays to
read the manual.  Do you want a text-file copy of it, BTW?

PE> Yes, if I save at 57600, and then run my comm port at 57600, everything is 
PE> hunky dory. 

BG> Then what the fuck are you complaining about? 

PE> That's like saying, "After you patched Binkley to fix the Spirit
PE> double-send bug, why the fuck did you still complain about the
PE> Spirit?".

No it's not.  It's saying that you should have read the manual, or at the
very least, listened to those of us who told you REPEATEDLY that the USR
actually works this way.

Regards, Bill

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