Verbose modems (Re: MORE 6386 UUCP WOES)
Michael "Ford" Ditto
ditto at cbmvax.UUCP
Wed Nov 9 12:30:37 AEST 1988
In article <5042 at cbmvax.UUCP>, I wrote:
> Having "result codes" on a dialin modem on a Unix
> system is a pretty stupid idea
[ ... ]
In article <2174 at cuuxb.ATT.COM> mmengel at cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel) writes:
>A good kluge for this particular problem is
[ ... ]
(and several other people mentioned "solutions" for the "problem")
My point was that Unix has the software support required to handle
modems the way they were meant to work -- using EIA signals rather
than ASCII strings sent by a microprocessor in the modem. There is
no reason to have a dialin modem in verbose mode in the first place.
--
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