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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: 2400/MNP5 + CONNECT = 2400 baud?????
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.212757.16857@nstar.uucp>
Date: 12 Nov 90 21:27:57 GMT
References: <4100.273E9D21@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Limited
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root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:

>Larry Snyder (larry@nstar.uucp ) wrote: 

>   This is the beauty of the driver-internal speed locking: as far as the 
>software is concerned, it's talking to the serial port at the modem's connect 
>speed. All estimates were based on connect speed, and stty < /dev/tty 
>(actually, its DOS equivalent) would report the CONNECT speed, not the physical 
there are replacement gettys available which will accept the input from
them modem telling the connect rate (ie: CONNECT 9600/ARQ) which could
be put in a file with the port number, then the bbs could read this file
and set the correct flags in the bbs..

>   I don't have to tell you this; you must have encountered it a couple of 
>years back (I was network echomail co-ordinator for southwestern Ontario in 
>'88 and I remember a regional echo co-ordinator named Larry Snyder. I thought it 
>was rather silly of anyone south of Canada to call their system the "Northern 
>Star"... alas, I stray from the conference topic.

I don't know why I picked that name - hmm..  I have several alias machine
names here - and chances are one of those names will replace the name
nstar sometime in the near future.
-- 
       Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA 
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