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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Liason network bridges vs. Telebit
Message-ID: <46100293@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 89 14:31:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Mar 20 08:31:00 1989


>>
>>It seems that the software periodically sends a modem-configuration
>>command string to the modem.  According to the article, this occurs once
>>per minute [etc.]   This
>>configuration command includes an "&W" sequence, which instructs the
>>modem to write the configuration information into its nonvolatile
>>memory.

Really? I would consider it violently unpleasant for ANY program to
write to a configuration PROM in any device without an explicit
request from the user. You should specifically have to invoke
a configuration program, which would get ready to do so and then
ask the user "Do you want to make this the permanent configuration
of you whatzit?" and wait for confirmation.