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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: hayes lawsuit
Message-ID: <57.2832A441@zswamp.uucp>
Date: 14 May 91 15:41:39 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario
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In a letter to All, Peter da Silva (peter@ficc.ferranti.com ) wrote:

 >In article <TMB.91May13041549@volterra.ai.mit.edu> 
 >tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
> If you can think of uses prior to the mid-1980's of timeouts or timing
> to transmit out-of-band commands or data to a computer or communications
> device, please drop me a note, and I can put you in touch with the
> attorneys handling the case.

 >I know this is a bit obvious, but that's basically how 
 >unclocked serial
 >communications (such as async ascii) work in the first 
 >place, by using
 >timing to transmit data to a computer or communications 
 >device...

   I think they need something more specific, i.e. the use of timeouts to 
identify characters as control and not as data.  In particular, the pause 
(default 1 second) before and after three escape characters (default "+").
 

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