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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Binding Systems entries to specific Dialers entries (and not Devices)?
- Keywords: Dialers Devices Systems HDB
- Message-ID: <4012@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 03:14:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.193621.11013@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Nov18.085647.20388@netcom.com>
- Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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- In article <1992Nov18.085647.20388@netcom.com> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
- >BTW, It's somewhat dangerous to make your dialer look for such specific
- >connect messages from the modem. What happens if the other guy turns off
- >compression in his modem?
-
- I tend to agree. However, there are some times that you have to force things.
- I have my modem DTE-locked. The normal ACU entry simply specifies the speed
- I have the DTE is set to, plus looks for "CONNECT" and ignores the detailed
- info. But there are some modems that don't sync up properly when I let
- the two modems fight it out amongst themselves. In those cases, the
- Dialers/Devices entries (invoked via an ACU<something> clause) explicitly
- force the modem into a given mode, and insist on the matching CONNECT plus
- details.
-
- >You could comple the connection and log into
- >the computer, but your call fails because the script didn't get the /COMP
- >suffix from the modem.
-
- On the other hand, this may be what you want. One of the very first
- user-experience postings about Telebits was from Henry Spencer who recommended
- that you will often want your modem to insist on a specific connect type.
- Ie: you're dialing into a modem pool, where some of them will sync up with
- high speed, and some of them are slow. It's sometimes smarter to
- reject the slow connect and try again for a fast one.
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