Minicom/Modem Questions From A Perl Programmer

[Hal Vaughan]

On Monday 19 December 2005 07:43 am, Adam Lackorzynski wrote:

> > It does help, since I've been leaving out pauses and not preceding with a
> > CR, which could make a difference.  It'd be frustrating to find out that
> > is all, but I am *very* weak in this area, so I'm not surprised that it
> > could be something so obvious.
> >
> > One related question: In a reset routine, I tried sending the following
> > commands:
> >
> > ATZ
> > AT&F
> > AT ...(init string)...
> >
> > and I found whenever I included the AT&F I ran into trouble with garbage
> > appearing whenever I connected to another system.  The last time I ever
> > had to worry about modem configuration was on an Apple //e, with an
> > AppleCat (oh, those WERE the days!).  I remember whenever anything went
> > wrong, the thing to do was AT&F to get the factory defaults, then send in
> > all your init strings to change the settings to what you wanted.  (Since
> > then, when I had dialup, it was an easy ISP connection without the need
> > for config tweaking.)
> >
> > Is there some problem with AT&F (Yes, I know it resets defaults, but
> > shouldn't those allow for reading data from another system)?
>
> Well, I don't know, I'm not very experienced with modem stuff
> unfortunately...

How about the serial port stuff?  Or if you aren't experienced, is there 
someone on the list who can confirm what I think the m_setparms routine does?

Thanks!

Hal