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From: rab@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Hayes command set oversight/problem
Message-ID: <2593@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 05:06:11 EST
Article-I.D.: well.2593
Posted: Mon Feb 16 05:06:11 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Feb-87 02:41:43 EST
References: <871@basser.oz> <1144@sri-unix.ARPA>
Reply-To: rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Summary: nope

In a previous article Alan Larson writes:
+ Alan Skea writes:
++         The modem in ANSWER mode will use the '-' as the escape character,
++ 		if commands are enabled at all. 
+
+Cute.  Then when it outputs the lines separating parts of a digest or
+news/mail articles, will it escape?
+	Alan

   Not unless there are EXACTLY three '-' characters, and they are both
preceded and followed by the appropriate (usually one second) pauses,
with no significant delays between them.  Not very bloody likely.


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