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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: 2400zi not Hayes compatible?   :-(
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Date: 2 Feb 90 07:24:25 GMT
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In article <1098@madnix.UUCP> perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) writes:
>In article <22546@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>$The deal is that Handshake does NOT use the serial.device, but talks to the 
>$CIA ports directly.  Therefore there is NO way to change the serial.device
>
>No version of HandShake that I know of bangs on the CIA's directly. If
>HandShake doesn't work with the Supra 2400Zi it is because they didn't
>do something quite right. 
>
>After all, why would it work with the DSB (which it does) if it banged
>on the CIA's directly?

Perry,

I've been told that there are a variety of versions of Hanshake, some of
which will work with DSB and 2400zi's, some that won't work with them.

I've here a copy of the 2400zi manual addendum, and it states very clearly
(dated about 10 months ago) that "the Supra 2400zi does NOT work with
Handshake", and their program that "zappes" the "serial.device" string
won't work with Handshake either.

I gather some versions of Handshake either talked to the CIA directly or
did something that was not "up-to-standard", but just worked by luck with
the serial.device.

Eric Haberfellner is on BIX, so you might ask him why some version work and 
some don't (I'm not on BIX anymore).

-- Marco
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