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echo: aust_modem
to: Hamish Moffatt
from: John Piper
date: 1996-10-23 07:22:26
subject: What`s `HST` mean?

On Friday, October 18 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote to John Piper ...

 JP> As you would very well know, all nodelist flags do is indicate the
 JP> protocols your modem supports. Quite possibly, forcing an HST connect
 JP> from overseas may not violate any telecommunications authority
 JP> regulations.

 HM> Supports meaning accepts connections with. David implies that B1 is
 HM> needed for the modem to accept an incoming HST connection, but the use
 HM> of B1 voids the AUSTEL permit. So to keep in line with AUSTEL regs,
 HM> David uses B0, and is no longer elligible to "fly" the HST flag.

The Courier does not need to be set to B1 to accept incoming HST calls. It
is only necessary to use B1 when forcing HST on outgoing modem calls. My
Courier
is also set to B0, but that does not stop incoming callers from connecting to
my modem with HST.

John (japp{at}mpx.com.au)

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