[comp.dcom.modems] Mini-modems, error correction, DOS, and Unix

bill@franklin.com (bill) (06/30/91)

We're looking for a small modem that will plug into a port of a
portable PC running DOS and that will take its power from the PC.
This will be used by people with portables to talk to a Unix box.
We've seen two of them: one from Practical Peripherals and one
from Hayes. Apparently, neither of them does error correcting in
the modem. (MNP and all that.) Well, the phone lines we'll be
using can be awful, so this won't do.

Does anyone have any suggestions? We can pretty much do what we
want on the Unix side, but the PC users are *not* computer people
and may well be resistant to anything on their end that smacks of
intellectual effort.

I do not read this newsgroup, so I'd appreciate it if you'd send
your replies via e-mail. If there is any interest I will post a
summary to this newsgroup.

Thanks.