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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Clarification on MNP4 and Everex 24+
Message-ID: <1991Feb07.180740.21326@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 18:07:40 GMT
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root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:

>   When I spoke to the technocritters at Telebit, they revealed that their PEP 
>buffers are 1.75K.  USR specs say that their HST's buffers are 1.5K, though bit 
>8 (I think) of S15 cuts that to 128 bytes if the modem connection is without 
>error correction (you're stuck with large buffers if you're talking to another 
>HST, or an MNP or V.42 modem).

the buffers are great for file transfers - but for interactive use
with on-line hot keys - they can create problems.   I wish there was
a way on the fly to enable and disable the buffers from within the BBS
hostware - without leaving the system open for users to play with the
modem configurations (maybe there is such a way?)

-- 
   Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287 (HST/PEP/V.32/v.42bis)
                        regional UUCP mapping coordinator 
  {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar!larry, larry%nstar@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu}