Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hayes!tnixon
From: tnixon@hayes.uucp (Toby Nixon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Wanted: Advise on a modem for my PC.
Message-ID: <2331@hayes.uucp>
Date: 25 Oct 90 10:12:06 GMT
References: <6758@suns401.cel.co.uk> <1990Oct23.063532.21901@robobar.co.uk> <1990Oct24.142824.23134@Octopus.COM>
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA
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In article <1990Oct24.142824.23134@Octopus.COM>, pete@Octopus.COM
(Pete Holzmann) writes: 

>>1) it can be damn near impossible to debug difficult connexions without
>>   the blinkenlights
> 
> But on a PC, there are freebie TSR programs available that simulate
> the lights!

None of these programs do a very good job.  All they can do is 
simulate the "lights" based on the status registers in the 8250 -- 
and then not all of them!  There's no way they can show you the 
equivalent of the HS, AA, and OH lights.  They CAN show you CD, TR, 
and MR, and to some extent RD and SD, but they can't show you if MR 
is blinking because the modem has been placed into remote loopback 
mode, etc.  It just isn't the same.

	-- Toby

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