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From: c60c-3aw@web-3d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Various observations
Summary: Some clarifications
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Date: 15 Oct 88 02:18:36 GMT
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In article <165@orbit.UUCP> shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley) writes:
>>1) While I'm among the first to praise ProTERM, it does have some rather
>>   odd bugs.  For instance, I connected my //gs to a Toshiba 1200 (IBM
>>   compatible) and tried to talk at 19200 baud.  All we got was garbage.  After
>>   dropping it to 2400 baud, everything worked fine.
[...]
>It's possible that ProTERM doesn't use interrupts.  Or it doesn't buffer the
>data at high speeds.  Whichever; check out your control panel options and
>maybe enable buffering yourself.

I do have buffering enabled; it wasn't a buffering problem.  I was trying
just to TYPE a few words; they came up like ProTERM was set to the wrong
baud rate (or wrong data/stop bits setting, which we also checked).

>>4) My modem (a Zipper 2400, actually a Prometheus ProModem 2400G) doesn't
>>   return numerical codes after hanging up, so ProTERM never realizes that
>>   the phone was hung up.  Note that it DOES recognize a busy signal, so it
>>   probably isn't related to the init string.  Anybody have similar probs?
>
>Are you sure you aren't having problems with maybe carrier handshaking?
>Or is it when YOU hang up?  In that case, if your DTR isn't enabled when
>you receive the status code, chances are you will lose it.  Then again,
>maybe it's not either of these...

It prints "NO CARRIER" rather than returning a number.  If I use the ProTERM
H)angup command, it is smart enough to realize that the phone was just hung
up; in fact, what I usually wind up doing is waiting until I am disconnected
and then hitting OA-H.

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>INET: shawn@pnet51.cts.com

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