RE: News/400 Paging Program

No, that's not it.  As I mentioned in my e-mail, the problem is that my
modem does not dial (I can hear it NOT dialing).  Using it to do a
SNDPTFORD, I CAN hear the modem dialing.

Dave

>----------
>From:  Doug Hart[SMTP:dhart@vcomm.net]
>Sent:  Thursday, July 24, 1997 3:12 PM
>To:    Leland, David
>Subject:       Re: News/400 Paging Program
>
>
>   The problem is most likely that your paging service has OLD
>equipment,
>   most do called a TAP.  It's not that your new modem wont step down
>but       rather it has newer compression features built in (MNP5,
>etc.)
> I put       text pager software on my Amiga (desk top) at home which
>uses a newer
>   modem and ran into this (most Rockwell chip modems will).  I have
>   one of the new IBM 33.6baud modems on my RISC but have not looked at
>   the manual yet.  What your going to have to do is sent an init 
>   string to the modem just prior to the ATDT that will shut off all
>   advanced functions.  For example my home Supra modem would be
>   ATZ\r\d\datm1&fns37=1\r\ATDT       which looks like a lot for
>   garbage but works.  
>
>   Good luck.
>
>
>On 24-Jul-97, Leland, David wrote:
>>We recently went to a RISC box and in the process went from the old
>2400
>>Baud IBM modem for ECS to a new 7852-400.  The new modem works great
>for
>>ECS but I cannot get it to work with our PAGER program.  Our PAGER
>>program is the one from the News/400 magazine that simply varys on a
>>line and controller (after setting up the phone number to be dialed on
>>the controller description), and waits a few seconds and varys
>>everything off.
>
>>Our problem is that the new 7852-400 does not autodial when the
>>controller is varied on, as the old 2400 baud modem did.  Since we
>>carried over all our configuration descriptions from our old CISC box,
>I
>>figured it should work as before, but it doesn't.  I did check to make
>>sure that AUTODIAL was on and it is.
>
>>When I do a SNDPTFORD, I can see and hear the new modem dial, however
>>when I try to use our PAGER program, the modem does not dial.
>
>>Anyone have any thoughts on how to get this new modem to autodial?
>
>>Thanks,
>>Dave
>
>-- 
>Doug Hart E-mail:dhart@vcomm.net    President
>Sr. Consulting Technical Analyst    Central New York AS/400 User Group
>IBM AS/400 Technologies             www.vcomm.net/~dhart/cny400ug.html
>
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