Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hodge!rusty
From: rusty@hodge.UUCP (Rusty Hodge)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Suggestions for an inexpensive 1200
Summary: Making the PP 2400 work with a BBS
Message-ID: <194@hodge.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 18:49:07 GMT
References: <2771@calmasd.GE.COM> <78700002@uiucdcsp>
Organization: Hodge Computer Research Corp., Orange, CA
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In article <78700002@uiucdcsp>, gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
  (about the Practical 2400 modem)
> Just one person complained that the modem was a pain for BBS sysops
> (in answer mode).  He didn't say you couldn't get it to work, just
> that 80% of the traffic on Opus sysop Echo on Fidonet came from people
> encountering difficulty using this modem for a BBS.

The modem resets itself to the speed of the last caller.  Unless you
set &D2 and drop DTR between calls (&D2 resets the modem on DTR low) or
your software re-initializes the modem between calls, you will have
some problems.  We have these problems with using them on a Unix
machine (AT&T 3B1) that doesn't drop DTR between logins.