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to: mark lewis
from: Neil Walker
date: 2002-07-17 15:08:10
subject: proposed new nodelist [2]

Hello mark!

Monday July 15 2002 19:13, you wrote to me:

 NW>> Besides, I've yet to come across a program that amkes any use of
 NW>> that field in the nodelist other than to simply display it. ;-) It's
 NW>> more for human readability than anything else.

 ml> my FrontDoor sure makes use of it... i've settings to call systems
 ml> with speeds above and below certain thresholds... i can even set up
 ml> certain modem inits based on the speed field, if i need to...

Considering the nodelist can only contain speeds up to 9600 (yes, I know
Zone 1 does it's own thing ;-) ), the other modem flags are far more useful
for that.

I also need to seperate calls according to the receivers capability (ISDN,
V34, V32, etc.) and I do it with those flags.


Be lucky,

Neil

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