Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.misc:306 comp.dcom.modems:2070 Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc,comp.dcom.modems Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: UUUUU Message-ID: <1988Jul11.000011.530@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <407880.880706.KFL@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>, <2799@ttrdc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 88 00:00:11 GMT The UUUUU... sequence is well-known to be the result of one of the modems erroneously going into test-pattern mode. Modems on time-sharing systems and the like should *always* have remote initiation of test disabled, because otherwise it's easy for line noise to kick the modem into this mode. There is no fix except to break the connection. The 2400-baud equivalent of UUUUU is wwwww. The former is known as "the marching umber hulks"; I haven't heard an equivalent name for the latter. -- Anyone who buys Wisconsin cheese is| Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology a traitor to mankind. --Pournelle |uunet!mnetor!utzoo! henry @zoo.toronto.edu