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By: rorschach
Date: 11/21/99 1:15:30 PM
# Replies: 36
Guys, I got a niggling little problem that I haven't figured out a way to solve yet. I KNOW what I gotta do , just how to get to where I can do it is the problem.
I aquired a used Hayes external 56k modem (which is good cuz the old winmodem I was using was really getting flakey) but the thing started life out connected to a network internet server and the internal registers have a bunch of settings in em I don't like and I want to nuke it back to the factory defaults (at&f) but I can't figure out how to go about doing that. Hyperterminal won't let me, I cant find a init string feild in DUN either. Any ideas?
Response #1
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 11/21/99 1:34:57 PM
Go to a DOS command line and Echo the string out to the COM port where the modem is.
For example:
c:\Windows\Command>ECHO AT&F > COM1
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #2
By: rorschach
Date: 11/30/99 10:42:58 PM
bear with me cuz it's been a LOOONG time since i screwed much with DOS and COM ports, hell i chuck all my old books on DOS, i figured DOS is DEAD (or at least on life support). do i need to type in a MODE command to set the baud and parity/stop bits & such? I don't recall. hell i dunno if the mode command even still exists...
Response #3
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 11/30/99 11:49:19 PM
Mode does still exists is Win95/98 but your default settings should be fine.
If you REALLY want to play with it though...
MODE COMm[:] [BAUD=b] [PARITY=p] [DATA=d] [STOP=s] [RETRY=r]
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #4
By: Ralf
Date: 12/1/99 11:44:55 AM
...and I'd betcha anything the Mode command only impacts your current DOS session. Once you close the dos-box, the settings return to whatever Win98 wants. So it's probably useful only as part of a batch file.
Response #5
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 12/1/99 3:48:29 PM
Yeah, it is just the current session. Hopefully he's not going to try to USE his modem with ECHO commands. :)
I think he just needed someway to send a AT&F to it, and hyperterm wasn't seeing the modem to let him do it.
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #6
By: Ralf
Date: 12/2/99 7:18:51 AM
Well, don't laugh, but I hear that some of the "other" operating systems are nothing more than collections of scripts and whatnot.
Sheesh. Can you imagine??
Response #7
By: sooz
Date: 12/2/99 8:37:00 PM
MODE is a great magazine, for women Size 10 and over...
Response #8
By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/2/99 9:09:06 PM
That reminds me... I haven't received the latest issue of "Beer Belly Nerd" yet...
Ya know, a few months ago, when I was still working at American General, I used to visit the little convenience store in the lobby, and they had a magazine rack with all sorts of titles... and one "men's" magazine caught my eye which had this incredibly beautiful model on the cover. I dunno who she was, but she was sooo captivating I was *tempted* to buy that magazine...
...but I couldn't bring myself to do it, because the magazine was called something like "Black Man" magazine, sort of a black GQ, I guess, in that same sorta upscale style.
But I couldn't buy the magazine because, as a dorky white guy, I would have felt extremely silly at the checkout counter plunking down a copy of "Black Man" magazine.
Response #9
By: Ralf
Date: 12/2/99 11:17:43 PM
Just throw in a copy of Macrame World, Highlights, JetSki Monthly, Motor Trend, and Aviation Week. Everyone will assume you're doing research for... something.
Response #10
By: sooz
Date: 12/3/99 10:49:10 AM
For some reason, that combo is making me giggle. Well, the picture of Fang with that combo, precisely.
Response #11
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/6/99 6:09:53 AM
I once had the pleasure of buying a copy of a 'zine called We Like Poo. It's one woman's poo diary, and letters and articles about poo.
When I took it to the checkout counter, the guy there said, "Wow. Someone finally had the courage to buy one of these."
Response #12
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 12/7/99 12:01:11 AM
Ok...I'm showing my cultural ingnorance here...what exactly *IS* a "poo diary"?
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #13
By: Katt
Date: 12/7/99 1:37:12 AM
I would guess either about the cartoon character (I hope that is) or maybe about your restroom experiences..
Response #14
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/7/99 2:06:35 AM
A diary of every time she had shit since the last 'zine was published. Some with pictures.
Response #15
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 12/7/99 1:42:39 PM
Did it have samples?
Response #16
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/8/99 2:47:04 AM
No samples. Unless it's like that KISS comic book from the 70s where they all put their blood in the ink that was used to print the books. Maybe there's a little fecal matter in the xerox toner used to print this 'zine.
Response #17
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 12/8/99 12:14:52 PM
There was a comic book miniseries called Squadron Supreme. It was the ultimate achievement in this author's career and so when he died, he was cremated and they put his ashes in the ink of the new commemorative trade paperback they released shortly thereafter.
Response #18
By: Ralf
Date: 12/9/99 9:21:33 AM
And someday he will be resurrected by extracting his DNA.
Response #19
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 12/9/99 6:19:38 PM
Saw a cool episode of The Outer Limits the other night where a religious fanatic/televangelist type used a DNA sample from blood on the Shroud of Turin to clone Christ. Needless to say he didn't get what he was expecting.
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #20
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/10/99 3:31:09 PM
"oh no, i'm his twin brother, cleetus."
Response #21
By: rorschach
Date: 12/10/99 11:22:31 PM
don't tell me there were a few breaks in the dna chain and the guy peicing it together used frog DNA right?
Response #22
By: Roxanne
Date: 12/10/99 11:50:44 PM
I think if they used the DNA from the "blood" of the Shroud of Turin, they'd get some 15th century painter.
SoS: Hey!! Hugs hugs!
Response #23
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 12/10/99 11:57:40 PM
hahahahah
Christ...Cleetus Christ.
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #24
By: Cleotis
Date: 12/12/99 11:52:26 PM
Cleotis Christ? Kewl!
Response #25
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/13/99 11:38:27 AM
hugs roxanne! you're from alabama, you got the dukes of hazzard reference, right?
Response #26
By: Roxanne
Date: 12/13/99 7:15:13 PM
SoS: No, my dear, I am not *from* Alabama. I just live there at present. Though I do remember having a serious crush on John Schneider back when "Dukes" was still in prime time.
Response #27
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 12/13/99 9:46:43 PM
Dukes were from Georgia, anyway, man.
Response #28
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/14/99 8:59:46 AM
oh. sorry for stereotyping.
Response #29
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/14/99 4:36:26 PM
Yes, you must be very careful about stereotyping when you refer to the Dukes of Hazzard.
Response #30
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 12/15/99 5:25:34 AM
Homer.. that sounds like a scratch and sniff kinda book.
Response #31
By: Ralf
Date: 12/15/99 7:28:42 AM
Aw, he's just a good ol boy, never meaning no harm.
Response #32
By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/15/99 1:35:47 PM
For your next Dukes of Hazzard party, make sure you get the original Enos.
Response #33
By: Roxanne
Date: 12/15/99 4:06:30 PM
I want a "Tickle Me Enos" Doll! Please can I have one, please please?
Response #34
By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/15/99 6:54:59 PM
(affecting a cockney accent)
Tickle me WHAT?
Response #35
By: sooz
Date: 12/15/99 10:50:32 PM
BAHAHAHA cough sputter... damn. That was FUNNY.
Response #36
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/16/99 6:28:43 PM
I'm still getting over 'the Hubble is hobbled...'