Bizarre problem with Multiech/fax reception

Amadeu Pi (AmadeuP@santiveri.es)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:22:20 +0200


Hi all,

I am using this option with my multitech modems and it works like a
charm.

Amadeu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc SCHAEFER [mailto:schaefer@alphanet.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 6:00 PM
> To: mgetty@greenie.muc.de
> Subject: Re: Bizarre problem with Multiech/fax reception
> 
> 
> Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> wrote:
> > If yes, I will tell the guy to browse the manual :)
> 
> Well, indeed, in the mgetty info documentation, under Multitech, I
> found this:
> 
>    BUT: There seems to be a way to tell the modem to behave like a
> Rockwell one and use the "wrong" byte order. Carlos Fonseca found the
> following text on ftp.multitech.com:
>  
>      Function          Command       Description
>  
>      PROCESS           +FRBOR        Maintaining compatibility with
>      DATA IN                         Rockwell Class 2 chip 
> set for fax data
>      DIRECT OR                       reception .
>      REVERSE ORDER                   FRBOR=0 - Process 
> received fax data in
>                                      direct order.
>                                      FRBOR=1 - Process 
> received fax data in
>                                      reverse order.
> 
> So, to not require special flags for the fax conversion 
> utilities, this
> can probably be used.
> 
>