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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: GVC 9600 V.42 won't download from CIS
Message-ID: <107.2843277C@zswamp.uucp>
Date: 28 May 91 13:41:42 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario
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In a letter to All, L. Jack Wilson (ljwilson@utkux1.utk.edu ) wrote:

 >When logged into Compuserve at 2400,e,7,1 (the only settings
 >I can use in my area), I can't download files.  I have tried
 >xmodem, cis quick-b, and kermit, all to no avail.

   If you're being 'forced' to use 7E1 then it's a safe bet that something 
somewhere won't pass 8-bit data, which means that XMODEM doesn't stand a 
chance of working.  I don't know if Quick B is capable of handling 7 bit data 
paths, but Kermit will *if* you tell both ends to make the adjustment.

 >I've tried dialing the university with the same settings, 
 >and both kermit and zmodem work fine, regardless of the baud
 >and parity parameters.

   Perhaps the U's ZMODEM handles 7-bit connections, but it's more likely that 
the ZMODEM drivers (and probably the kermit drivers) on both ends switch the 
ports to 8N1 for the transfer and restore them immediately after.

   This, of course, isn't very useful if something along the path can't handle 
8-bit words, and your CompuServe connection might have that problem.  Are you 
calling a CI$ port direct, or through a network?

 >Surprisingly enough, the MS Windows 3.0 terminal program
 >works fine, but setting PCPLUS as close as I can to the 
 >win-terminal program doesn't help.

   Works fine with CompuServe?!?

 >Surely there is a simple setting the new modem has that the 
 >old one didn't (a Packard Bell 2400Plus [OEM'ed by GVC]).  The ONLY 
 >variable that has changed is the modem.

   So the GVC 2400 worked fine under the same circumstances?

   Did you not have to dial a different port to get a V.32 modem?

   Jeez, I hope GVC didn't become real smart and make their modems 
parity-aware...
 

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