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echo: aust_modem
to: Paul Wankadia
from: David Drummond
date: 1996-11-06 05:51:30
subject: What`s `HST` mean?

Paul, at 21:55 on Nov 02 1996, you wrote to Russell Brooks ...

PW>> stuff" via an AT command?  There must be some sort of 
PW>> "trigger" to get the modem into "update Flash
ROM" mode?
RB>> It has a "Boot strap" similar to booting a computer.

PW> Righto.  So how does it do that -- does the program send an 
PW> AT command of some sort???

One would imagine that it might.  It's just an executable one runs on a DOS platform.

Recent additions to the Domestic/Canadian SDL allow for an AT command which
then lets one "upload" the new code with X-Modem thus allowing it
to be done from any platform.

David
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