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Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Verbose modems (Re: MORE 6386 UUCP WOES)
Keywords: cu, Hayes Modem
Message-ID: <5203@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 88 02:30:37 GMT
References: <319@argon.UUCP> <2096@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <727@wsccs.UUCP> <889@vsi.COM> <758@wsccs.UUCP> <83@prapc2.UUCP> <2174@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 22

In article <5042@cbmvax.UUCP>, I wrote:
> Having "result codes" on a dialin modem on a Unix
> system is a pretty stupid idea
 [ ... ]

In article <2174@cuuxb.ATT.COM> mmengel@cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel) writes:
>A good kluge for this particular problem is 
 [ ... ]

(and several other people mentioned "solutions" for the "problem")

My point was that Unix has the software support required to handle
modems the way they were meant to work -- using EIA signals rather
than ASCII strings sent by a microprocessor in the modem.  There is
no reason to have a dialin modem in verbose mode in the first place.
-- 
					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ford@kenobi.cts.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		...!sdcsvax!crash!elgar!ford
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com