duke@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Roy Brabson) (05/03/87)
I am assuming all Hayes 1200's support all the features that mine does; it is possible that older ones do not support busy signal detection. The way I have mine check for this is by placing "X4" in my modem initialization string. This allows the modem to detect both a dial tone and a busy signal. Like I said, maybe your Hayes doesn't support this, but mine does.
rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) (05/03/87)
In a previous article Roy Brabson writes:
+I am assuming all Hayes 1200's support all the features that mine does;
+it is possible that older ones do not support busy signal detection.
+The way I have mine check for this is by placing "X4" in my modem
+initialization string. This allows the modem to detect both a dial tone
+and a busy signal. Like I said, maybe your Hayes doesn't support this,
+but mine does.
I know for a certain fact that the SmartModem 1200's which we used at
my job last year did NOT have any of these features (busy signal, dial
tone, or remote ring detection) as it was due to the LACK of these
features that we began purchasing the Hayes 2400 units, which DID have
them. If Hayes has since brought out a 1200 model with these capabilities,
I say it's about time!
Ours did not have any letters after the name, just plain '1200'.
Does yours by any chance say 'SmartModem 1200A' or 'SmartModem 1200B' ??
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In article <2986@well.UUCP>, rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) writes: > > I know for a certain fact that the SmartModem 1200's which we used at > my job last year did NOT have any of these features (busy signal, dial > tone, or remote ring detection) as it was due to the LACK of these > features that we began purchasing the Hayes 2400 units, which DID have > them. If Hayes has since brought out a 1200 model with these capabilities, > I say it's about time! > Ours did not have any letters after the name, just plain '1200'. > Does yours by any chance say 'SmartModem 1200A' or 'SmartModem 1200B' ?? > No, mine is simply a Smartmodem 1200. In the user's guide, pages 3-4 through 3-6 describe the various commands (X1 - X4) which can be included in the modem initialization string and their effects. I guess Hayes must have added these features after the ones you were using were purchased.
rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) (05/06/87)
In a previous article Roy Brabson writes: > In the user's guide, pages 3-4 through >3-6 describe the various commands (X1 - X4) which can be included in the >modem initialization string and their effects. I guess Hayes must have >added these features after the ones you were using were purchased. I think you must be right, I just checked a current Hayes manual and compared it with an old one from that place I used to work. The old one just says that you can specify X0 or X1 for regular or extended result code sets (CONNECT 1200 in addition to CONNECT) but nothing about detecting remote rings, busies, or whatever. The newer manual has the info as you describe. I tried these on the old modems and they definitely don't work. So, in summary, anybody using a Hayes modem: if you bought it about 2 years (or more) ago then it may not have these capabilities. -- Robert Bickford {hplabs, ucbvax, lll-lcc, ptsfa}!well!rab terrorist cryptography DES drugs cipher secret decode NSA CIA NRO IRS coke crack pot LSD russian missile atom nuclear assassinate libyan RSA