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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: zmdm termcap & Phone directory
Summary: manual helps
Message-ID: <1989Jul1.012514.2579@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 1 Jul 89 01:25:14 GMT
References: <6875@leadsv.UUCP>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <6875@leadsv.UUCP> lefko@leadsv.UUCP (Martin Lefkowitz) writes:
>I'm not that familiar with termcap.  It looks like Greek to me.

Try "man termcap" -- it really is pretty logical.  But some systems use
terminfo instead or, what is worse, in addition to!

>Also I notice when I start up zmdm I always had an error the first
>time I try to dial.  The command to the modem gets garbled (I'm using
>an Avatex 1200).  Has anybody had any experience with that?

Do you really get an error, or does it just look that way?  ZMDM
defaults to 9600 baud, and when you dial a number at a different rate
the echo to the screen looks like garbage.  But it still dials OK.

-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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