spem@hscfvax.UUCP (02/01/87)
A person whom I tutor in various subjects, including computer science,
recently acquired a Commodore Modem/1200 (Model 1700). He also got with
it a diskette containing the comm program "Common Sense".
I have some problems with this program. They are enumerated below.
1) Can you send a true break? (The manual doesn't mention it.) I know
of (and use) a lot of systems that would like to see a couple of
breaks so they can sync up their character-send frames with my char-
receive frame properly.
2) Why does the Commodore keyboard sometimes seem to "freeze up"? The
thing simply doesn't seem to be accepting keystrokes... until later,
the "missing" ones suddenly pop up all at once.
3) What the heck is the "BRF"? I see it mentioned in the Com-M modem
setup line, and + increments and - decrements it. Just as a guess,
I tried twiddling the value up and down when we couldn't properly
connect to some area BBS's, and suddenly things seemed to work. Does
this have to do with the problem mentioned way in the back of the
manual of Bell-212 modems that send "1200" baud actually at 1219
baud? Or is it something entirely else?
Any and all help, comments, flamage of the Modem/1200, etc. gratefully
accepted.
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Name: G. T. Samson
Nicknames: The Evil MicroWizard / An Insane Man
Addresses: gts@hscfvax.HARVARD.EDU
gts@borax.LCS.MIT.EDU
Quote: "You speak treason!" "Fluently!" -- The Doctor (and others)
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