Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Controlling answer tone sequence
Message-ID: <7114.27F182EE@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: 27 Mar 91 18:34:40 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario
Lines: 22

Dave McLane (davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp ) wrote:

 >But the USR DS I have will start it's answer tone cycle at 
 >the speed of the previous caller.

 ... unless it receives a command at another baud rate.

 >My solution for this is has always been to re-init the modem 
 >to the highest speed with at least an ATH command so the answer 
 >tones always go from high to low.

   A simple AT<cr> will do.
 

--  
UUCP:     watmath!xenitec!zswamp!root | 602-66 Mooregate Crescent
Internet: root@zswamp.fidonet.org     | Kitchener, Ontario
FidoNet:  SYSOP, 1:221/171            | N2M 5E6 CANADA
Data:     (519) 742-8939              | (519) 741-9553
The mile is traversed not by a single leap, but by a procession of coherent 
steps; those who insist on making the trip in a single element will be failing 
long after you and I have discovered new worlds.        - me