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From: davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Controlling answer tone sequence
Message-ID: <B6DLZ3w163w@aegis.or.jp>
Date: 28 Mar 91 22:39:58 GMT
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root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:

> 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.

Yes, I know. I believe I already mentioned that in my orginal
post.

>  >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.

Yes, exactly; on a BBS where you can do such. But the question
was how to do this with UNIX? Specifically ISC UNIX R3.2 V2.2.

--Dave