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From: bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.dcom
Subject: Re: Hayes Customer Support
Message-ID: <299@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-May-84 17:59:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: sjuvax.299
Posted: Mon May 14 17:59:36 1984
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>> After trying two of these, we sent it back and got another popular
>> modem, the Novation CAT.  Everything looked good until I noticed
>> that it had no command for dialing the phone.  It expected you
>> to pulse one of the RS-232 pins to generate the dial pulses!
>> Who does this?  So we finally went and got a Hayes Smartmodem
>> 1200.  We've been using it for over a year and it hasn't failed
>> once.

Yes, remember it well.  When we were first trying to get uucp
going, I was frantically going through the UN*X documentation 
trying to figure out exactly *how* one pulsed RS-232 pins.
Finally this modem was delegated to hand connection from home type
uses, and we acquired a Hayes.

BTW, I'm still curious as to how one could pulse one of the RS-232
pins from within UN*X.  Please reply by mail if you have any ideas.

-- 
				Binayak Banerjee
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