Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!EGLIN-VAX.ARPA!forde From: forde@EGLIN-VAX.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: ProTERM bug Message-ID: <8704222326.aa03456@SPARK.BRL.ARPA> Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 22:23:00 EST Article-I.D.: SPARK.8704222326.aa03456 Posted: Wed Apr 22 22:23:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 08:15:08 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: "MAJ ERIC S. FORD" Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 37 ProTERM seems to be one of the best new modem programs to come along in quite a while, surpassing even MouseTalk in its ease of use and overall capabilities. I haven't yet bought the program but it looks like I will. In the mean time, I did have occasion to correct an apparent bug on a friend's machine. He was running Proterm on a //e with an Avatex 1200HC modem. Unfortunately, the Avatex is missing from the installatZK +9+so he had it installed as a Hayes Smartcom 1200. The problem he encountered only occurred when he attempted to call a number that was busy. The Avatex does not recognize a busy signal but depends on a time-out value (in seconds) stored in register 7. Although you can set up the initialization string to set this register to any value, Proterm apparently resets register 7 to 90 seconds regardless of the value you request. Your value shows up in the DIAL menu and in the dialing countdown but when the countdown gets to 1 second to go the mode[=c 9until 90 seconds expires. The only way out is to turn the modem off and bac (that is unless you don't mind waiting for 90 seconds between each auto-dial attempt). The solution is a simple sector edit in the PT.BIOS file. Using you favorite sector edi_Kc@locate track $1C, sector $08 95change byte $A7 from $39 (low ASCII 9) to $33 (low ASCII 3). Write this back to disk and you're all set. Now, the value you select for carrier delay will be the value used. NOTE: Make sure you do this do a working copy of your disk and not to your original. Also, if you've modified you disk in any way, such as copying the files in a different sequence from the original, the track/sector info may not be the same. If so, search for the sequence 'ATS7=90' and make the modification to it there. That sequence oCKshowed up once on the disk I examined. Unfortunately for me, ProTERM offers only limited printer/interface support which doesoBinclude an install option for my MicroTek Dumpling-GX (among others). If this shortfall is corrected, ProTERM will move to the top of my acquisition list. ------