How to handle incompatible modems?

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sun, 6 Mar 1994 16:57:02 +0100


Hi,

Klaus Weidner wrote:
> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) wrote:
> > It's possible to automatically identify what modem is
> > being used via the ATIn command.  

> It would be elegant if a new function, identify_modem(),
> could reliably detect the modem type and initialize the
> structure appropiately. That way, you wouldn't even
> need to mess around with config files for this.

Well, note the word "reliably". I don't think that it is possibly. Detect
many modems, OK. Detect most of them, also OK. Detect all possiblilities,
reliably? How???

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
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