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- From: ged@phantom.cs.hut.fi (Camillo S{rs)
- Subject: Re: Supra won't connect
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.111226.15770@cs.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Reply-To: Camillo.Sars@hut.fi
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
- References: <17242@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 11:12:26 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In <17242@mindlink.bc.ca> David_Hunter@mindlink.bc.ca (David Hunter) writes:
-
- >I have a Supra v. 32bis external modem. Since the ROM upgrade it has worked
- >very well. However, I recently tried to connect to a local library system
- >which runs at 2400. I dialed up the system and got a Connect 2400 result
- >code, about 7 or 8 garbage characters appeared on my screen and then the
- >connection was lost. I tried several times to complete the connection using
- >Procomm for DOS and Windows. Everytime the result was the same. My Supra is
- >basically configured with &F2 with only a couple of minor changes.
-
- Have you tried disabling error correction/data compression? If the
- answering modem doesn't support them, the handshake characters get
- sent through to the BBS/host/whatever. Some hosts don't like that kind
- of "garbage"...
-
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- Helsinki University of Technology \X/ --- Camillo S{rs
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