Acbosgd.2010 net.periphs utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Mon Feb 1 19:50:30 1982 ventel I used the Ventel modem once, and found a major problem. It has a very nice human-friendly interface, but if you hook it up to a computer and expect the computer to dial out over it, you will have a problem. The modem itself is not able to keep up listening for a phone number at 1200 baud! I had to kludge uucp (the delay/no newline stuff was put in) and gimmick the L.sys file to send the first digit, wait for the first digit to echo, send the second digit, wait for it to echo, etc. Slow and ugly but it worked. An alternative is to program into the 5 numbers it can keep memorized the (only) 5 numbers you will ever call. Of course, you'll have to fix up your L.sys to know how to talk to it, this isn't hard using the expect/send/expect/send business. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.