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From: sun@venus.ycc.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: All we need is an XCMD to replace the DIAL (Re: Dial w/ modem in HC)
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Date: 6 Oct 88 03:52:13 GMT
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In article <102500003@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes...
> 
>I have the same problem on a Mac II/Prometheus modem.
>It's a little bit pathetic when you think about it.  Hypercard is
>supposed to be optimized for doing simple stacks like the phone stack.
>Yet, it seems like the modem driver must be brain-dead in hypercard.

	Someone pointed out that Apple made a mistake by dropping the DTR
signal in the stack before the phone number is dialed out. On some modem,
the DTR signal can be forced up by a switch. I don't have the switch on my
modem. If it is indeed a mistake, why couldn't Apple simply write a XCMD to
overrule the original DIAL command. So to make people like me happier. I
would love to write one myself, but at this stage I don't know enough about
XCMD and how the modem serial port is initiated. I'd appreciate it if
someone can give me a light on it. 

--- Kang Sun
sun@yalevms
sun@venus.ycc.yale.edu