Verbose modems (Re: MORE 6386 UUCP WOES)

Dave Martindale dave at onfcanim.UUCP
Sun Oct 23 02:02:10 AEST 1988


What you *really* want for mixed dialin/dialout on UNIX is a modem
that is totally silent, like any dumb modem, when answering a call
but which provides verbose "result codes" in originate mode.

With some Hayes-compatible modems, you can do this by having result
codes turned off in the settings in EEPROM, having the modem reset
itself from the EEPROM settings when DTR drops, and then using a
uucico "chat script" to turn on result codes before dialing.

Or you can just use a Trailblazer, which allows you to specify
silent answer mode and verbose originate mode.  The Trailblazer
has the largest number of useful options of any modem I've ever seen.
(Hello, Hayes, anyone awake out there?)



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