Re: FW: RE Modem identification

[Pawel Krawczyk <kravietz () aba krakow pl>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:01:01AM +0200, Dawes, Rogan (ZA - Johannesburg) wrote:

> I started writing a War Dialler in Perl for Unix/Linux that would simply
> take a list of numbers and dial them, recording the banners, and doing a bit
> of prompting to stimulate banners if none were forthcoming. But one of the
> things that I have no idea how to do is the "Automatic Parity conversion"
> that Tone-LOC did, when connecting to a different parity modem.

This works probably by trying all possible encodings (8N1, 7E1 etc.)
and looking at the result. Whichever seems to be plain ASCII, is probably
the right guess.

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