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From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: TIES vs. the '302 patent... my opinion
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 11:33:45 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp

louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:

> Perhaps some clever modem manufacturer will come up with a new
> operating mode which causes the modem to drop to command modem and
> leave the modem connected when the DTE drops DTR?

   Almost every modem I've seen in the past couple of years supports this via 
the AT&D1 command.  I believe that the lack of this feature is a more serious 
deficiency than TIES.

Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
         Coincidentally, most people who fight for "fairness" would be
         significantly better off under the system they call "fair"...
From: scottd@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Anyone using a Scout+ in the UK
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:40:36 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Hi,

Could anyone  using a Digicom Scout Plus in the UK  please let me know
your opinions on it?			 ^^^^^^^^^

Cheers,

Scott.
From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: V32bis download speeds
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:13:51 GMT
Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand

In article <3490.48.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp> john.navas@uttsbbs.uucp (John Navas)  writes:
>lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu) writes:
>
> > I have a Boca 14.4 V32bis internal modem. The emulated UART is a
> > 16450 apparently. Calling a BBS with a USR Dual (14.4 v32bis) the
> > most I can get using zmodem and zipped files on a download is about
> > 1480cps. This is using Procom/Win on a 386/40 8M and with nothing
> > else running. In fact I am just staring at the download in progress
> > screen. OTOH uploading to the same BBS I have gotten up to 1700cps.
> > My question is, is this a symptom of not having a 16550A UART? I
> > always thought not having a fifo buffer in a UART would only be a
> > problem when multitasking. I am certainly not doing that. And the
> > machine seems to be fast enough to send the data out. My disk
> > drives are both 18ms Seagate 125M IDE drives 700kb/sec xfer rate so
> > that would not seem to be the bottleneck. Any ideas anybody?
>
>Given that you are getting excellent upload speeds, your somewhat
>slower download speeds are probably due to the configuration of the
>particular BBS.  You may well get higher speeds from some other
>source.
>
>Nevertheless, try adding:
>
>COMxBuffer=1024
>
>to the [386Enh] section of SYSTEM.INI (replacing x with the number of
>your COM port; e.g., for COM2:
>
>COM2Buffer=1024
>
>Don't forget to reboot before testing it.

Thanks I will try that. Never occurred to me before that I could do some
buffering in Windows also.


>
>Also, if possible run your modem on COM2 (or COM4) rather than COM1
>(or COM3), particularly if you have a serial mouse.  (This gives the
>modem higher interrupt priority.)

This is not so easy. I have COM1 (unused), COM2, on the serial card but
with no UART and with no docs to disable. COM3 the internal modem. My
mouse is on a bus mouse card. Thus this may not be a factor.

>
>Finally, be warned that some of the modem setups in ProWin are less
>than optimum.  I got significantly better results from my USR
>Sportster 14400 when I changed the modem setup (in WMODEMS.DAT and
>reinstalled the modem) to:
>
>John
>                 
Well there was no predefined setup for the Boca so I chose one of the
14.4's and changed the initialisation string to one which was
apparently recommended by Boca and posted on the Internet.  I will
take a lok at wmodems.dat in the manual and see what else I can
fiddle with.

Thanks for the assistance.

Laurence Chiu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: nanook@eskimo.celestial.com (Robert Dinse)
Subject: Re: Telebit T3000 and Suns
Summary: Interactive Use
Keywords: T3000, Sun
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:48:01 GMT

In article <1abj2fINN4ri@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au>, dclunie@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (David Clunie) writes:
> >|> > Don't have any problem with dropped characters, get great throughput.  Don't
> >|> > settle for 19.2k on the Sparc, 38.4k works great with TB-3000's.
> >|> Tried using incoming MNP or V42 compression yet ? Then you'll see a
> >|> few dropped characters !
> >Key words here are "a few". I get maybe 10 retries per day over
> >a 30MB/day news feed (as in packets dropped, resend). Maybe one silo 
> 
> There is a huge differenc between using a protocol mediated transfer
> via slip/ppp/uucp or whatever and a regular terminal type session on
> a dial-in line. Try calling a host with tip, loggin in and then dumping\
>  
> several screenfuls of text without paging through it ... then you will
> see what I mean !

     I do and I don't have any problem with it what-so-ever.

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: west@ntmtv.UUCP (Andrew West)
Subject: Re: Supra New ROM (ordering info)
Originator: west@herald
Organization: Northern Telecom Incorporated
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:08:05 GMT

From article <BvE6C8.Ir0@gator.rn.com>, by larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder):
> alansar@ccs.northeastern.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari) writes:
> 
>>        MNP10  -  Dec. 92 
>>        V23  -  Dec. 92

Can anybody clarify what feature these provide?  I *think* MNP10 is
error checking for international and cellular lines, but I've never
heard of V23.

Andrew West
Northern Telecom    UUCP: {ames, amdahl, hplabs}...!ntmtv!west
Mt View, CA   USA   Internet: ntmtv!west@ames.arc.nasa.gov  or
			      ntmtv!west@ames.arpa

Mann - "So you don't know everything?"
Eve  - "It would be impractical to know everything.  Access time would
	be enormous..."

-Mann & Machine
From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: TIES and T. Nixon
Date: 26 Sep 92 14:04:14 EST

In article <6037.2ac219a2@hayes.com>, tnixon@hayes.com writes:
> better or worse, I felt that you all deserved to read the 
> unadulterated release as published by Hayes and to draw your own 
> conclusions.  I respect the intelligence of the participants in this 
> group enough to not entertain the notion of being a filter for you; 
> the trade press does quite enough of that.

Toby,

I appreciate ALL your contributions to the net.  I applaud the Hayes
company for considering them an appropriate way to spend much of your
very valuable time.

I consider the storms that build around you from time to time to be 
a product of stupid mean-spirited idiocy and applaud the maturity that
allows you to be able to ignore the misogynists and continue to make
the valuable contributions to the net that always produce those vituperative
storms of persiflage.

I have invoked your name, and several others, more than once in discussing
"how to advertise on the net", posting as dlhpfm.uucp!dlh@ab.com, once
within the past week on misc.entrepreneurs.

I have to believe that the readers who want you to continue to do what
you do and NOT CHANGE IT are a significant majority here, but they know
that the quickest way to get rid of the noise is to ignore it.  I know
that, too, but think there is occasionally a need for public declaration
of appreciation.

dan
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: USR sportster conversion announcement.
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:17:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.053512.10555@cs.hope.edu> turkstra@smaug.cs.hope.edu (Chris &) writes:
|	Also, please note that it has also come to our atention that 
|versions of the firmware being disseminated contain disguised code 
|("trojan horse") that may inflict irreperable dmmage to the hard dive of
|the computer utilizing the programs.

hee, hee!  *MODEM TRASHES HARD DRIVE*, pictures at 11.

scare tactics at their best.  Hooray for USR.

  Bill
From: jlang@class.class.org (Jimmy Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: TIES vs. the '302 patent... my opinion
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:43:18 GMT
Organization: CLASS.ORG

In article <152@mindlink.bc.ca> Mike_Benna@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Benna) writes:
>
>The second issue is whether a company should be able to patent something
>so simple and useful.  If you think it's a good thing to have patents
>like this, then you must also allow Hayes to defend it's patent and make
>money on it.  If you don't think patents like this are a good thing, you
>should do something to change the patent laws, not flame Hayes about
>defending their patent.
>

It's much easier for me to decide never to buy another Hayes Product
(hoping that they'll get the message), rather than trying to pursue a
course to change patent laws.  Instead I will spend my valuable money on 
products from other manufacturers like Telebit or other competitors.
And should I be asked my opinion on Hayes, I'll be more happy to refer
potential buyers to other companies.  If they still choose to buy Hayes
that's their option.  For me, the Hayes 1200bd and Hayes 2400bd modem I
have, are the *last* Hayes product I'll buy.

-Jimmy

-- 
-Jimmy
jlang@cerf.net
From: colonius@dino.dinoco.de (Stephan Muhs)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Differences between ZyXEL models
Distribution: world
Date: 26 Sep 92 18:01:55 CET
Organization: Private

In article <1992Sep19.051559.27005@wuecl.wustl.edu> amc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello) writes:
>What are the differences between the ZyXEL U1496, U1496S, U1496E, U1496E+,
>and any other similar models that may exist?

U-1496 and U-1496S are identical (the U-1496 is sometimes refered to as
the "S"-model)

U-1496 and U-1496E both share a 12 MHz 68000 CPU and are functionally
mostly identical, exept for:

U-1496: four-wire leased line operation (including V.33) and a separate
RJ-45 jack for leased line (2W/4W). Dial backup feature in case of a
leased line failure. 6 leds (power,off-hook,auto answer, DTR, TxD, RxD)
an 20*2 lcd display (backlit for recent units). 4 keys for external
modem configuration and operation. Lots of $$$ more expensive...

U-1496E: 12 leds (high speed, auto answer, carrier detect, off-hook, DTR,
DSR, CTS, TxD, RxD, error control, signal quality, test).

The U-1496R is a rack-mount version of the U-1496, the U-1496B is an
internal ISA-bus modem card.

U-1496E+: similar to the U-1496E, but with a higher performance CPU,
clocked at 20 MHz and more SRAM for the DSPs. Currently, there is little
functional difference between E and E+, but this may change.






>I will post a summary of the responses.
>Thanks,
>AMC

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From: rouellet@gel.ulaval.ca (Real Ouellet)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Standard commands for class 1 and/or2 FAX
Date: 4 Oct 92 15:14:53 GMT
Organization: Universite Laval

Pardon me if this is a FAQ...

Does somebody knows an FTP site where I can get a documented list
of all the standard class 1 (and/or2) commands for the FAX protocol?
Is it proprietary, somehow? There is a note in my modem manual saying that
I should write to ANSI in order to get this, but  I'd would prefer to avoid
this.

Thank you.

Real Ouellet
rouellet@gel.ulaval.ca
Electrical Engineering, LAVAL University, CANADA
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax,comp.graphics,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Looking for gif/tiff/pcx/fax/.... converter
Keywords: image converter
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:37:20 GMT

In article <markus.12.717254452@clement.info.umoncton.ca> markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN) writes:

>	Look for a commercial program called 'HighJack'.  It converts 
                                              ^^^^^^^^

Heh heh heh....

Its called "Hijaak".  9-)

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Xref: sparky comp.dcom.fax:1804 comp.dcom.modems:14480
From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Subject: Re: Remote FAXing for FREE?
Reply-To: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Distribution: comp.dcom.fax
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 10:46:01 BST

In article <1992Oct5.220917.14723@bert.eecs.uic.edu>, kenyon@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Robert Kenyon) writes:
- This may not be the proper group but....
- 
- Is there a FAX service through the internet where one could send a
- fax message by E-Mail to a fax server in another part of the country or 
- the world and have it FAXed to a local fax machine where 
- the server is located?  The server would receive the E-Mailed fax message
- and then make a local call to send the message to the local fax machine.
- 
- I am presuming that the local phone call is not an extra charge for 
- the people running the server.
- 
Which more or less presumes the server is in the US. There is no particular
bar on private arrangements for this, but be sure such bars will appear 
once telcos spot that they are loosing revenue this way.

Some chargeable networks offer services like that (BIX, CIX, Compuserve
but I would not recommend them if you try to save money on a per-fax basis.

                                   Thomas

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From: tnixon@hayes.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: Fax classes
Date: 3 Oct 92 09:32:11 EDT
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

In article <1992Oct2.102729.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>,
ppohjakallio@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes: 

> Are the EIA recommendations exactly the same as CCITT's?

Yes and no.  EIA-465 and EIA-466 TRY to keep up with the changes in 
T.4 and T.30, but it's difficult to keep them aligned.  TR-29 is 
presently balloting new versions of these documents.  I general, 
most of us in the US just reference the CCITT recommendations.

> In a PC-Magazine article about PC-faxes different classes were mentioned. What
> are these classes? Are they valid only for PC-faxes or ...?

The "classes" mention most likely refer to the US standards for 
extensions to the [Hayes] AT command set for controlling fax modems. 
Class 1 is a minimal set of commands to control a fax modem that 
provides just the basic hardware features for faxing; all of the 
protocols must be implemented in the PC.  Class 2 moves most of the 
T.30 protocol into the modem, and the command set is much larger so 
as to allow the control of all T.30 parameters.

> I've understood that CCITT Group 3 doesn't have any classes but Group 4 does.

It's a different kind of classes we're talking about.  All TIA 
(command set) service classes are applied to Group 3 fax modems; 
Group 4 "classes" are different.

-- 
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Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc.  | Fax     +1-404-447-0178  CIS   70271,404
P.O. Box 105203                     | BBS     +1-404-446-6336  AT&T    !tnixon
Atlanta, Georgia  30348             | UUCP uunet!hayes!tnixon  Fido   1:114/15
USA                                 | Internet                tnixon@hayes.com
Xref: sparky comp.dcom.fax:1806 comp.dcom.modems:14482
From: mshiels@TMSoftware.Ca (Michael A. Shiels)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: De facto Class2 fax/modem Command scorecard
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 14:14:13 GMT
Organization: MaS Network Software and Consulting

I am psoting this in hope that it will help other software developers
better handle the various responses to the AT+F commands etc.

Hopefully I will be soon releasing a Windows and DOS program which
can inquire into a modems capabilities and report it in a text report.
-- 
---

Michael A. Shiels                           | mshiels@masnet.uucp
MaS Network Software and Consulting         | mshiels@tmsoftware.ca
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
From: dave@exlog.com (Dave St.Clair)
Subject: Netfax 3.2.1 on a terminal server
Keywords: Netfax, GNU FAX terminal server
Reply-To: dave@exlog.com
Organization: Exlog, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 21:02:03 GMT

I've finally gotten around to setting up the latest version of
Netfax (3.2.1).  I'm tested both the Everex 24/96 and a new
MultiTech MultiModem II (v.32bis faxmodem).  The software works
fine with both modems -- off the serial ports of my Sparc II.

What I want to do is connect a faxmodem off an Emulex terminal
server.  These ports are accessible via a tcp socket.  I made
a minor modification to the source and was able to get netfax
to open the terminal server port.

When I start the spooler, the modem gets sync'ed then immediately
jumps into receive mode.  This fails quickly, then the modem resyncs
and jumps into receive mode....... This loop continuous until I kill
the spooler.

In my previous copy of Netfax (2.2?), I made the same minor mods
and everything worked fine.  Is anyone using Netfax with a terminal
server?  Any special settings for the terminal server or modem?

thanks,

dave@exlog.com




Xref: sparky comp.dcom.fax:1775 comp.dcom.modems:14059
From: mshiels@tmsoft (Michael A. Shiels)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Defacto Class2 and different compression techniques
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 10:52:07 GMT
Organization: MaS Network Software and Consulting

In article <6024.2ac0a8cd@hayes.com> tnixon@hayes.com writes:
>In article <nbxxckvg2@tmsoft>, mshiels@TMSoftware.Ca (Michael A.
>Shiels) writes: 
>
>> How can you handle the different techniques for Class2 compression of the image
>> when you don't know the technique until the call is placed?  Have a copy of 
>> each page in each compression type?  I am always using the lowest type
>> right now since I can't figure out a way to easily handle the other 3 
>> compression types.
>
>You're certainly doing it the easiest way: always insist on using 
>MH, Normal resolution.  The alternatives are to have all formats 
>pre-stored (as you mentioned), which wastes disk space, or to 
>convert on the fly (which takes a lot of horsepower).  You could 
>also store it ONLY in Fine resolution, and try it; if you find that 
>the receiver only supports Normal (which is pretty rare these days, 
>at least in regular fax machines) then you can disconnect, convert 
>the image, and call a second time to send it -- then mark it in your 
>phone number list as being "Normal Only" (you should only have the 
>discover this limitation once, unless they get a new fax machine).

For the de facto Class2 and real Class 2.0 the fax modems can be queried
as to it's capabilities.  Now say it supports a compression you don't want
to support.  Do you use the FDCC to set the maximum values you want to
advertise for answering and FDIS for calling?  I hope class 2.0 does a better
job of documenting how to set what things you want to support.  Ie I might
-- 
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MaS Network Software and Consulting         | mshiels@tmsoftware.ca
From: alan@acpub.duke.edu (Alan M. Gallatin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: DosFaxPro Handling of HP fonts
Keywords: fax software
Date: 30 Sep 92 05:33:19 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <zoran.717811648@ee.uts.EDU.AU> zoran@ee.uts.edu.au (Zoran Markovic)
writes:
>                                                          However, my 
>experience is that of all Cartridge Z fonts only Courier and Line Printer
>come out right, while Times and Helvetica (proportional) fonts come out with
>overlapping words (incorrect character lengths) and Helvetica letters
>are, simply put, ugly (not because of the reduced resolution).

>1. Has anyone had similar, or opposite, experiences with DosFaxPro?
>2. Has anyone found a way around this problem?

It's not your immagination, or anything peculiar with your computer.
DosFax has a SERIOUS problem that Delrina has still not yet corrected.
The term that the techies up there have given this problem is "font
crowding" and it manifests itself with most proportional fonts by making
letters overlap in rare cases, and letters crowd spaces between words in
most cases.  Delrina has acknowledged the problem; it occured in a fax
they sent me!  The problem is with the module of FAXCAP that does the
PCL translation.

There have been two ways around the problem.  First (most obvious, shy
of getting a replacement for DosFax) is to avoid faxing proportional
fonts.  Another possibility is to move to Windows, acquire a version
of Winfax (even the test-drive available from the cica windows FTP
site - called FAXDEMO) and go through the paces of faxing from windows.
The test drive will only fax out one page of your fax; however, if you
know what you're doing with the .fx? files, you can fax and abort one
page at a time, then go out to DosFax and create a single transmission
out of the fax pages generated by the winfax demo.  As much of a pain
as this is, it works.

When I complained about this, Delrina said that they are "working on
it."  Use your own judgement as to what this statement means; I will
attempt no interpretation.

-- 
Alan M. Gallatin <alan@acpub.duke.edu>
Duke University School of Law; Durham NC
From: jfg@spiderman.bu.edu (John F. Gibbon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Sun Fax
Keywords: Sun Fax
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:40:16 GMT
Organization: Information Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: jfg@spiderman.bu.edu



		I am looking for a modem that I can attach to 
my Sun Sparcstation and use to send faxes.  Can I use any generic
modem to attach to my SparcStation?  What specific software do
I need to control it?  What software converts ascii files or
postscript files to fax compatible files?

					Many Thanks For Any Suggestions,
		
						John Gibbon
						jfg@spiderman.bu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
From: freeman@eagle (Jay Freeman)
Subject: PD/sharware fax software?
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Organization: Sangamon State University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:10:26 GMT

I'm looking for DOS software that will send and possibly receive faxes. It
doesn't have to be fancy, just able to do the job. Does anyone know of such
a beast?

Thanks,
Jay

email: freeman@eagle.sangamon.edu
From: cooper@parc.xerox.com (Martin Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: CAS specification
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:55:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: parc.1992Oct2.155553.7890
Reply-To: cooper@parc.xerox.com (Martin Cooper)
Organization: Xerox PARC

In article <go+Oa.niki@trl.mei.co.jp>, niki@hirematu.trl.mei.co.jp (teruki niki) writes:
> Does anyone know how to obtain Intel's Communicationg Appication Specification
> (CAS)? Any information is welcome.

It's available on the Intel BBS. Call (503) 645-6275 with your modem
set to 2400-N-8-1. It may also be available on CompuServe (GO INTEL).

	Martin.

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax