🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:47:45 +0100, Richard Clayton
<richard@turnpike.com> wrote:
>In article <LBEy7MAAsMP0EwRf@cults.demon.co.uk>, Martin Ragg
><raggm@cults.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>>In article <XxPnOPAiCDP0Ewh9@whitecross.demon.co.uk>, Martin Watson
>><martin@whitecross.demon.co.uk> writes
>>>but then switched from the Motorola
>>>modem file to the universal modem script (under Turnpike).
>>For the record, what is the universal script?
>
>A script involving a number of conditionals which can be used to drive
>almost any modem. A few key commands are issued which distinguish
>amongst the various modem types which can then be configured separately.
>
>We now wish we'd invented it years ago.

We used to (and still do, given the chance) sell a package call M-Link,
first developed by a crowd called CMI, who were taken over by Legent,
who were finally assimilated by the even-more-evil-than-Microsloth
empire of CA.

'twas a communications system with, you guessed it, modem 
scripts. I recognised this difficulty - it seems UK versions of modems
have more (mututally incompatible) ways of defining "non-standard"
Hayes commands than US ones. I suggested doing a parameter-file driven
auto-detecting version of the modem scripts. If we'd ever sold
enough of the product, I'd have done it myself, but there were always
other more important things to work on.

The Yanks never picked up on the idea. Quelle surprise.

-- 
Mike Pellatt