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- Date: Sunday, 9 September 1984
- From: Alexander M. Fraser
- To: Keith Petersen, W8SDZ
- Cc: Ron Fowler
- Re: New MX-SM13A overlay for MEX/Anchor XXII modem
-
- (Please forward this to Bob Sandel to please, since I don't know his
- net address if any)
-
- The problem is that there is no pause between the ''+''s. The
- Anchorman has either a bug, or a safeguard that if the +s pass through
- at full speed (as they would in an ESC+T type transfer), the modem
- ignores them. I put in a patch to call a delay of 6 in the timer
- sequence between the ''+''s and doubled all the other delays in the
- disconnect sequence and it works at least 95% of the time. The way to
- solve the ^C problem is that the Anchorman will not abort on (CR), it
- needs an A. I modified it to send (CR), pause, ''A'', pause, ''T'',
- pause and then (CR). Works all the time, except while the Anchorman
- is still sending back the numbers (ie still dialing) (the Anchorman
- echoes each character back as it is dialed). Another thing that
- should be down with the MEx overlay is to increase the timeout (which
- is default 60 seconds). Since the Anchorman waits 36 seconds before
- hanging up and some ALD pauses coul make up the rest to 60, sometimes
- it times-out too soon.
-