modems and the "Erdtaste"

Robert Frank (u513201@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:17:41 +0100


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On 10 Feb 98 15:17:33 GMT, Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> wrote in
<m0y2HRG-000AzxC@greenie.muc.de>:
>
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> No idea. "Erdtaste" is something really weird - you do a short circuit
> from one of the A/B lines to ground. Decent modems have flash (a short
> short circuit between A and B), but I know of no modems with "Erdtaste".
...
>
> I have no idea how the GVC's want to be told about "Erdtaste", but for a
> generic modem, it is not possible.

I have checked how the GVC modem gets its "flash to ground":
One has to prefix with a ">", that means a possible prefix could be
(according to Blatzheim): ATX3DP>W

I don't know how the grounding is implemented.

Robert

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