TCPSer question

[Riktronics]

Hello!

I was playing around with CCGMS looking at the phonebook feature, and figured out that even though it doesn't work if you enter rkbbs.net in the phone number field it DOES wotk if you enter 555-1212 and then alias that number in TCPer with -n option (-n5551212=rkbbs.net). I have a few BBSs that I call, and aliased them in in a shell script.

Now my question? Is there any way to associate a baud rate with a number? I have to run one script for Q-Link since it runs at 1200, and another for the BBSs.

If it can't be done with TCPser, can it be done with TCPSerJ? I haven't had much luck getting it to work under Gentoo, but in reading the forum it looked like it has more phonebook option.

Thanks!

Rick

[Pinacolada]

Unfortunately, not that I know of! You have to have different scripts/batch files to set different bps rates...

And hi BTW. Like the changes on Riktronics.

[Jim Brain]

The problem is that the serial port has to "know" the required BPS before you even dial, or it won't be able to make sense of the data coming in (if the code were running on a uController, I could run the UAR in auto-baud mode, where you basically sniff the RS232 RCV line for timings and figure the baud rate dynamically, this is how newer modems work). Alas, I have no clue how to do that in a Windows/Linux/UNIX OS with all the abstracted calls.

Now, what I might be able to do is something like:

AT%B1200

sent from a term, that would switch the baud rate to 1200. Of course, you'd need a term app running on the 64/128 at the current bps rate to send the command. :-)

If that is of any interest, let me know and I will chew on it.

[Golan Klinger]

OT: It sure is nice to see you around again, Jim.