Minicom/Modem Questions From A Perl Programmer

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Mon Dec 19, 2005 at 10:27:28 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> 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?

Well, stupid question, did you try if it just works?



Adam
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