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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: SDL problems with new Courier modems
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 15:40:06 -0400
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4lbeim$nai@hopi.gate.net>
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- Matt Fox (Rigor@clever.net) wrote:
- : In article <4l5p9l$o0c@hopi.gate.net>, dhaire@gate.net says...
- : >
- : >I am trying to figure out just what he meant by "the modem's baud rate
- : >*must* be allowed to float", it makes no sense at all. My Couriers are
- : >alwas set to $B1 (DTE rate locked), I always used 115200 as the bps
- : rate,
- :
- : floating is part of the sdl process it lowers teh baud rate to 9600
- : and back to 19200 and then to like what ever youe baud rate is set
- : at to do the sdl process aparantly so other programs cannot snoop
- : on the sdl xfer or something...
- :
- : those transfer rates (9600 and 19200) that the sdl process floats too
- : might be incorrect its what i recall off the top of my head
-
- Why would the SDL process change the rate??? If it did, why would you be
- able to set the rate when running the executable???
-
- Have you ever really done a firmware load on a USR Courier?
-
- You either accept the port and rate defaults (port 1 and 57600) or you use
- command line options to change them. I always changed the speed so that
- it was *set* to 115200.
-
- I have no idea what it is you are trying to tell us about this "floating"
- baud rate, it doesn't make any sense to me.
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