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- From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
- Subject: Re: Telebits and TIES (was: Re: Boom! Our lawyer are tougher...)
- Message-ID: <bfnmqbr.gerg@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 06:07:30 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <BrMHC9.Ct6@wsrcc.com> <1992Jul20.034928.14560@cubetech.com> <Brp6vG.GtL@jwt.UUCP>
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- john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Jul20.034928.14560@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
- >>Good modem manufactureres like Telebit and USR pay Hayes, so you don't
- >>have to worry about it.
- >
- >Note that the WorldBlazer uses TIES, while the T3000 doesn't. Or
- >perhaps it now does -- My T3000 from last year used the Hayes-style
- >guard time, which was replaced by TIES in the WorldBlazer upgrade.
- >It's documented on the last page of the WB addendum. I called tech
- >support asking why (before I noticed it in the manual) and was told
- >"we're trying to get out of paying Hayes."
- >
- >The way TIES is implemented on the WB is a bit unusual. If you type
- >+++ with appropriate guard time, you will get an OK prompt. However,
- >if you subsequently type any character which is not a valid AT command,
- >the modem will issue the CONNECT string and go back online. Is this a
- >typical implementation of TIES?
- >
-
- Yep, one of the major goals of TIES is backward compatibility with
- software that's been written for the Hayes-style escape sequence.
- Most of the comm software I've seen just sends the three escape characters
- and blindly pauses for 1.5-2 seconds. Some software out there may send
- the sequence and wait until it sees "OK" before continuing. TIES needs
- to take this into account. If the modem sees the three escape characters
- followed by a pause, it returns "OK" to encourage the software to send
- an AT command (probably "ATH"). The pause isn't involved in changing
- to command mode, just in returning the "OK". The modem was already in
- command mode after the three escape characters.
-
- It's understood that the modem may falsely trigger on a sequence of three
- escape characters. If the modem detects a false alarm, it simply goes
- back into data mode. The two primary ways the modem detects a false alarm
- is that the escape characters weren't followed by "AT", or the AT command
- after the three escape characters is not a valid command.
-
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