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From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Can't get out of command mode
Message-ID: <15503@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 02:28:28 EST
Article-I.D.: onfcanim.15503
Posted: Tue Dec  8 02:28:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 19:12:45 EST
References: <15491@onfcanim.UUCP> <15500@onfcanim.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: National Film Board / Office national du film, Montreal
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In article <15500@onfcanim.UUCP> dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) writes:
>
>The fix is simple - turn off the
>escape sequence on the modems at the UNIX end (s2=255 on the Hayes,
>s55=3 on the Telebit).

Oops.  It turns out that the Telebit has at least two ways of disabling
escape sequences - setting s55 as above, or setting s2 to something
illegal.  Bravo for Telebit.

The Hayes, on the other hand, doesn't have anything equivalent to s55,
and it doesn't store the s2 setting in the EEPROM either.  There seems
to be *no way* to permanently disable the escape sequence (without
completely disabling command recognition, which is too drastic).

Why is it that Hayes always manages to miss what you want by just a little
bit?  Another example is the &D parameter - you can have DTR disable
auto-answer when it is low, or you can have the fall of DTR reset the
modem, but you can't have both - so either your modem answers when the
machine is down, or you accept the fact that you can't reset the modem
each connection.  Bah humbug.