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From: dave@dlb.UUCP (Dave Buck)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: unasked-for autobauding
Message-ID: <154@dlb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 10:18:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 10:18:54 1986
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References: <7208@utzoo.UUCP> <152@dlb.UUCP> <444@brl-sem.ARPA>
Reply-To: dave@dlb.UUCP (Dave Buck)
Organization: D.L.Buck&Assoc.,Inc., San Jose, Calif.
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Keywords: autobaud

In article <444@brl-sem.ARPA> Ron Natalie says, and I quote:
>If it says 300, it is definitely WRONG.  Typing anything at the computer
>in 103 mode is not likely to make you very popular with autobauding
>machines.  The 1200 and 2400 messages are OK since the modem tones
>themselves imply the Baud Rate. 

Getty listens to the digital portion of the line, not the analog, and can't
hear the tones.  Why does the fact that the MODEM can recognize the speed
make those messages ok?
Yes, having the modem tell the DTE the speed by sending a message at that
speed isn't my idea of something wonderful, but that doesn't make the message
go away.  And the impact on autobauding machines depends on the autobaud
algorithm ... if it wants to see a carriage return, sooner or later, at
a recognizable speed, then the modem I referenced will make it happy.  If
it wants to only see data from the distant end, and of a particular type,
then they are incompatible with that modem.
-- 
Dave Buck	(408)972-2825	dave@dlb.BUCK.COM, {amdahl,sun}!dlb.UUCP!dave
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