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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Modem works (but in the dark) please help
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.221905.28211@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 22:19:05 GMT
References: <7494.27238042@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <7494.27238042@uwovax.uwo.ca> jansson@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>I would appreciate your opinion / suggestion, on what is going 
>on with my modem.  It worked fine until two days ago.
>It does not respond to my commands but appear to execute them.
>In other words:
>at does not result in an ok
>atdt ####### dials the number given
>This fouls up all my kermit scripts and forces me to lift the 
>receiver to make sure that the call is answered (you are right,
>this is not a big deal but.....).
>I am embarrassed to admit that I do not know the make of the modem,
>the manual refers to it as Super Modem 2400, and it is an internal
>one.  
>Any and all guidance will be greatly appreciated.

Possibly the result codes have been turned off by the 'Q' command. Try "ATQ0"
to make sure they are enabled. On Hayes compatible modems you can also select
whether you get english or numeric codes. "ATV0" enables numeric codes, "ATV1"
enables english codes.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
Schlumberger Technologies       UUCP:   {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen
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