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From: thad@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: wanted to buy: a reliable modem
Message-ID: <9419@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Sep 88 06:08:25 GMT
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Re: the Practical Peripherals' modem (don't recall if it was the 2400 baud)

They connected it to a MicroVax.

Upon answering a phone, the modem would send "RING", "CONNECT" and other
nice things to the VMS' login prompt.  Needless to say, a lot of confusion
ensued.

Solution was to disable all response codes.  Fine.  Worked OK for people
calling in, and the login sequence was no longer perturbed.

Now, for calling out, the modem didn't respond with result codes, so the
outdialling software had no idea of call progress, status, etc.

Hayes modems would return to a known state upon drop of DTR, and could be
programmed by the outdialling software as required.  All works fine.

The Practical Peripherals modem did NOT act the same as the Hayes; thus, it
is NOT Hayes compatible.

They finally bought a Multitech and all problems vanished.



Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]