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From: ART100@PSUVM.PSU.EDU ("Andy Tefft  725-1344", 814)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: hardware handshaking through a modem
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Date: 6 Oct 90 17:59:00 GMT
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Hmm. It would seem to me that you would have problems doing hardware
handshaking with a modem. For sending, things would probably be
fine, but imagine when you are receiving. You drop cts or whatever
to tell your modem not to sen to your computer, but how does
your modem tell the other modem this, when all it has to talk
to the other modem with is a rd/sd line (the phone line)??

Your printer works because it isn't receiving data from another
printer and sending it along to you.