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Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0
From: Alexander Bochmann <full-disclosure () FreiNet de>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:14:36 +0100
Hi, ...on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:48:59AM -0500, Luke Scharf wrote:
But, still, isn't a string of characters that the modem won't transfer something that the communications system on a PC should handle?
Why should it? After all, the escape sequence is configurable with the S2 register on Hayes comptaible modems, so as far as PPP is concerned, it can't know the current value (but it should be safe to assume it's been switched off by setting S2>=127 in any sane environment). On the other hand, there were setups that needed to have the escape sequence (specifically, if the system didn't support the DTR line on their serial interface so they had to use +++ath to actively hang up the line). Quite funny how much time has been wasted rediscovering this "feature" over and over again in the last years. See for example http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=12500013%40uiucuxc.UUCP&output=gplain where the author is perfectly aware of the escape problem. Alex. (do I seem to remember that some people ran into this trouble with uncompressed FidoNet netmail packets, too?) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Luke Scharf (Mar 17)
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- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Luke Scharf (Mar 18)
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- Re: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Luke Scharf (Mar 18)
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- RE: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Dave Horsfall (Mar 18)
- RE: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 Radule Soskic (Mar 18)
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