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February 1999, Week 1

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Chris Bartram <[log in to unmask]>
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 In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:

> I believe that these Codex modems are not the only devices that may feel
> obliged to intercept the flow control characters and act on them. I am under
> the strong suspicion that some of the WAN cards (which are basically high-
> speed modems) that appear in some of the more popular routers that allow
> remote-access are similarly capable of being programmed to allow either the
> transparent passing of flow control characters or interacting with it in the
> same manner as the Codex modems, and thus generating the same failure suite to
> o
> an HP3000 user.

Muxes (remember the HP233x?) and X.25 network devices are also notorious for
eating flow control...

    -Chris Bartram

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