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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Kickin' Setting for USR Courier
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 20:41:54 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4dovmi$422@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <390_9601140747@juge.com> <4dascj$tsn@gidora.kralizec.net.au> <4de6r6$1j6@brickbat.mindspring.com> <sywx6ps56n.fsf@tiktok.cygnus.com>
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- In article <sywx6ps56n.fsf@tiktok.cygnus.com>,
- Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com> wrote:
-
- | Some of us do not like &F1's behavior (in particular, I believe that &F1 should
- | have set the S register so that the modem NEVER connects to a non-error
- | correcting modem -- the current behavior is to try for an error correction and
- | fallback if it can't get it).
-
- You have a valid point, but it depends on what the user is doing. If
- you don't do the fallback, the operation is "if you aren't going to
- do EC I don't want to talk to you." For people who have to connect
- to support BBSs which have crap modems, or people who operate
- systems which accept calls from the public (I still get calls at
- 300) this is not reasonable policy.
-
- I think USR got this one right, the default is "do the best you can."
- --
- Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- Davidsen's first rule of system administration:
- He learns to swim fastest who is thrown in the deepest water.
-