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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: "modem passes break transparently"--function?
Date: 27 Nov 1995 14:10:30 GMT
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In article <498i21$8eb@thoth.nilenet.com>,
Gideon Weisz <gweisz@nilenet.com> wrote:
: why, in the modem script that i have, that came with msk3.14, is the
: choice made, that instead of the factory default, one should ask for
: "nondestructive/unexpedited" and the comment in the script was "modem
: passes break transparently". why is this preferable here, and would it
: not be preferable in other settings?
:
Many computers and services do, in fact, need the terminal or terminal
emulator to send the Break signal in order to get their attention. If
the modem is not configured in this way, it will absorb or act on the
the Break itself, rather than passing it on to the host.
One example of such a host is the IBM mainframe, with which communication
is half-duplex (two-way alternate). The only way to get its attention
when you do not have permission to transmit is to cause an error -- this
is done by sending a Break. The error causes an interrupt on the
mainframe side, allowing the application to be interrupted, turn the line
around, or similar action. Another example is the time-honored
"baud-rate" recognition method used by UNIX.
These and other uses of the Break signal are described in detail in the
Kermit books.
The reason modems have settings concerning how to handle Break is mostly
a consequence of the Hayes patent on the "guard time" around the modem's
escape sequence. When modem manufacturers stopped incorporating guard
time, they needed to provide a "safe" way of escaping back to the modem's
command processor without dropping the connection, and most of them made
Break (or Long Break) a way to do this -- but of course, that would
prevent you from sending Break to the host. Thus the setting.
The nice thing about Kermit's dialing scripts is that anybody can change
them if they don't do exactly what you want them to.
- Frank