Re: GBBS Pro with null modem

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Forty Two" <FourtyTwo@NoAddress.invalid> wrote in message
news:1109513984.0cbe3340947e280923fabb56b15970af@1usenet...
: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:51:55 -0500, "Bill Garber"
: <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
:
: >: : Then what do I set GBBS Pro to, one of those 'no carrier' modems (the
: >: : fastest being 1200 baud, ugh.)?
: >: :
: >: : Skip
: >
: >Ok, I looked this up. Choose a modem with the
: >baud rate desired and change the INIT string
: >to ATZ. This "SHOULD" work, but I'm not going
: >to stake my life on it.  :o)
:
: Thanks Bill. I will investigate that. But to admit ignorance, so far
: as I know GBBS Pro handles all the modem hand-shaking stuff internally
: based on the hard-coded list of specific modems you select in it's
: configuration utility. I will see if I can sent ATZ via basic or
: something and hope it doesn't get reset when GBBS Pro goes on-line.
: :-)

I would think that the GBBS selected modem will change the code with
it's own modem INIT line, so you must change it to ATZ within the
GBBS modem selection. ATZ is all you should need to set a generic
null-modem connection to the other machine.

: Thanks for your help. I appreciate it. (If you hadn't sold me that
: 3.5" unidisk drive to get me off the ground, I probably would have
: chucked the whole idea by this time. :-)

Hey, glad to help keep the Apple II Forever slogan from becoming
defunct.  :o)

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