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In article <4apebd$iac@natasha.rmii.com>,
Adam Felson <afelson@rainbow.rmii.com> wrote:
| I'm unable to use my new U.S.Robotics Sportster 28.8 w/ FaxWorks.  Upon 
| examining the log, it seems that FaxWorks is issueing a "&D3" command (do 
| a soft reset upon DTR loss) which is causing the modem to respond with 
| "ERROR".
| 
| Can the U.S.Robotics be setup to ignore commands it doesn't understand?

Let's ask the important question, has USR stopped supporting this
capability? I certainly use "reset on drop DTR" on every dialin
modem I support, regardless of vendor. I'm almost positive this is
supported in the USR 28.8 units I have, using the standard &D3.

Can someone comment on this? Without this modems tend to get wedged
in odd configurations which don't work.

Related comment, someone in USR might want to read: lots of
communications programs set the modem to bizarre settings and then
*save* them. My old Telebits used to have a switch setting to
disallow setting the NVRAM. New ones support a password on the save
function. It would be a major value add to me to have this
functionality in some form, and by indirection would make me likely
to recommend USR to clients.

The password approach needs no hardware change and is probably more
convenient, but if Joe Disgruntled Worker resets the modem pool
before quitting a switch is much nicer to have!