[hylafax-devel] ["Dr. Harald Pollack" <Harald.Pollack@datanews.at>] Re: Re: My RTN patch and many other changes/enhancements, third edition :-)

[Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>]

Sorry, but I have to forward this. Harald! Please do not leave the list,
here is at least one person (me) who needs your comments :-) Just ignore
messages, that exasperate you, I will fight their authors myself :-)))

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:44:33 -0600 (MDT), Steve Williams wrote:

Hello Dmitry!

The following is EXACTLY THE REASON WHY, I have had decided to cancel participation on Hylafax 
mailinglist!!!

>> 8. Default value for ModemResetCmds is now "ATZ". (ModemSoftResetCmd
>> parameter was never used :-)) (faxd/ModemConfig.c++, man/config.4f)
>> 
>
>This is REALLY bad!!  ATZ sets modems to totally random settings, depending
>on how the last program did that did an AT&W had configured the modem.

Such applications HAVE TO BE REMOVED from harddisk is quick as possible!!!!

>I know FOR A FACT that one of our apps that dials out does an ATE0Q1&W ( turns
>off echo and result codes and saves it ).

This behaviour is ANNOYING, first because it leave the modem in an unuseable setup, and second, 
WRITING to the non volatile RAM (NV_RAM, which is in fact an EEPROM) of modem by AT&W is LIMITED 
to a few thousand times!!!

>When HylaFAX starts up, and does 
>an ATZ, things are going to break because it will NEVER see an OK come back.

As long as any people use such applications, there is no way to make behaviour of HylaFax 
better!!!

>My personal opinion is that ATZ has ABSOLUTELY no place in ANY config file 
>because there is no predicting what exactly it will do.

ATZ is the ONE AND ONLY initialisation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>
>> 
>> 10. Default value for ModemFlowControl is now XONXOFF -- I think, reasonable
>> default for the most modems. (faxd/ModemConfig.c++, man/config.4f)
>> 
>
>Humm... what is the default now?  I would personally say that HARDWARE flow
>control would be the preferable Default flow control.

This is also a very bad asumption!

AThat way, if people
>are using DATA mode for binary file transfers, there won't be suspicious 
>"hangs" when XOFF characters get sent to the modem.

This is also a fault of the operating system and not of the fax application!!!

My blood-pressure raises to letal high values, if I must read such nonesense like above. I think 
I will retire from this mailing list as soon as possible again!


Mit herzlichen Gruessen / Yours sincerely

Dr. Harald Pollack

Harald.Pollack@DATAnews.at