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Date: Tue, 14 May 91 08:01 PDT
From: Randy Bush <news@psg.com>
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Subject: Re: Hayes Wins Damages on its Command Set Patent
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> The patent upheld is on the method of notifying the DCE equipment that
> the next data arriving should be treated as a command to the DCE, as
> opposed to data to be transmitted to the far end; that is, switching
> to command mode.

You mean kinda like one tells an X.25 PAD (i.e. Telenet et al.) to drop to
command mode from data mode,

   <pause> "@" <cr> <pause>

Seeing as the above and similar uses have been in use since the '70s,
how did our friends from Norcross manage to patent it?


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