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From: reh@ccd700.UUCP (reh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Ven-Tel 212 hangups on bin. transfers
Message-ID: <107@ccd700.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 17:05:24 GMT
References: <2694@cup.portal.com> <116@rna.UUCP>
Organization: Ford CCD, Dearborn Michigan
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Summary: You must configure Tymnet to pass binary data

In article <2694@cup.portal.com> david_islander_hughes@cup.portal.com writes:
>I access the United States through a satellite net which terminates in Santa
>Clara California. From there I dialout to the world through a Ven-Tel 212
>Plus -II modem Version 2.20.............
>  Most of the time it works very well, but whenever I or anyone else attempt to
>download xmodemed files (or any error checking program) from ANY system the
>modem hangs up. The time varies from day-to-day, but it always seems to hang up
> ...
>  There is one other possibility . .. the Tymnet engine that we use could be do

Tymnet will not pass all 256 binary characters transparently unless you
tell it to, and if you do not, xmodem will not work except occasionally.
Talk to Tymnet and they can set up the port to pass all 8 bit characters
transparently.
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Bob Harold                      313-845-5404   
Ford Motor Co., DPTC room B-206 ...!ihnp4!mibte!ccd700!eed090!bob
17000 Rotunda Drive             Disclaimer: The views expressed might
Dearborn, MI 48121-6010         not be those of my employer or myself
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