Re: News/400 Paging Program

[Doug Hart <dhart@xxxxxxxxx>]

   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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