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From: khen@TAURUS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: request: MNP (reliable modem prot.) software
Keywords: modem MNP reliable procomm
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Date: 12 Jan 89 18:00:24 GMT
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Organization: Tel-Aviv Univesity Math and CS school, Israel
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     I have a PC/XT clone with a dialup modem on an internal
board.   The  trouble  is,  this is a simple modem, doing no
error-correction.  This  is  no  problem  as  much  as  file
transfer  is concerned (I can use error-correcting software,
like kermit), but  interactive  sessions  are  difficult  to
hold, as the phone lines here are very noisy.

     I have seen more expensive modems,  with  the  microcom
MNP  protocol  (MNP == Microcom Network Protocol), and these
virtually elliminate noise at the hardware  level,  so  that
software  terminal-emulating  programs (such as procomm) are
unaware of it completely.  Trouble is, of course, this  type
of  modem  is more expensive.  So I am thinking of something
like a TSR program, that "sits" on  the  communication  line
and  does  the  MNP protocol in software, making it possible
for existing terminal-emulating programs to work with it.

     Does anyone out there have something like that  (source
or binary; free or for sale)?

Please send me any responses by e-mail.

        Thanks,
                Danny Khen