PE> The Commonwealth Bank apparently allows you to ring them via modem if
PE> you can emulate video text, or something like that.  Does anyone know
PE> the correct terminology (whatever Viatel used I think), and does anyone
PE> know of an emulation program that will do this for me?  I'm asking this
PE> on behalf of someone else.  BFN.
FM> Yeah, it's not hard, you just have to keep flipping the modem between
FM> 1200 and 75 for receive and send. I even had a couple of programs
FM> somewhere which do so. Very basic. At least one was even written in C,
FM> from memory. They're buried deep so let me know if you want me to dig it
FM> out.

It's even easier when your modem supports 1200 Baud with a 75 baud
back-channel as a standard ( CCITT V.23) protocol. Now if you had a
_real_ modem like a USR Sportster, you'd be right :)

Mind you, decoding and encoding all that Viatel ( NALPS ) stuff is
another matter altogether. From memory the _old_ NETCOM program had
Viatel support. If it didn't I _know_ that the Gateway program from
Cybersoft (which was the full retail product that the Netcom program
was cut from) did have full Viatel support. If Paul was to call
Cybersoft, I'm sure that they would supply a copy of it today as
they still make quite a bit of money out of it. It is cheap too at
about $75 bucks.

Regards, Brenton
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