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From: dave@runx.ips.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Answering modems should need no commands! // 2400 answer is fragile
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Date: Thu, 21-May-87 20:55:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 20:55:18 1987
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re fighting over
> whether it is patentable or not.  My 4 USR 2400's answer the phone just fine
> without my having to send 'em any commands.

Then again, I get annoyed when making several expensive phone calls to
remote machines, hearing the answer tone, then zilch.  If the machine
has crashed or is turned off, the modem doesn't know this, and quite
happily answers the phone for you.  Having the machine tell the modem
to "go ahead and answer it, I'm ready" has its advantages.  I once
chewed the hell out of one of our suppliers (in my previous job) because
they got into the habit of turning off their machine (half a world away)
without busy-ing out the modem.  ISD phone calls are expensive.

What do people out there do?  Or maybe we use different modems here.
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