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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: MNP modems
Message-ID: <7699@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 13:38:24 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.7699
Posted: Mon Oct 26 13:38:24 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Oct-87 05:43:47 EST
References: <3013@husc6.UUCP> <377@cogent.UUCP> <7660@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: MNP

In article <391@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes:
|In article <7675@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|>I just turn MNP off when dialing certain systems.
|>I had to diddle my dialer a bit, but the result is worth it.
|
|I'm familiar with this approach.  Sure, you can diddle your dialer
|to turn off MNP, but it is not possible to reliably turn it back on
|again at the end of an outgoing uucico connection.  Problem is (at

dialer diddling:
	send AT, get the modem's attention
	lookup the phone number in "/usr/lib/uucp/has.MNP"
	set echo, quiet, MNP option and attention char
	dial and wait for connect
	use attn char: reset MNP option and attn char

Much easier to set the mode after the dial, before the connection.

This may cause problems with some modems...  they may not like switching
MNP options on the fly. 

-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me