Re: Serial port time out? (fwd)

Frank Heinzius (frimp@mms-gmbh.de)
Mon, 6 Nov 1995 19:33:20 +0000

Hi,

On 6 Nov 95 at 18:03, John W. Temples wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Frank Heinzius wrote:
>
> > There is an inactivity timer for the Sportster as well as for the
> > Courier modems. It's normally disabled:
> >
> > ATS19=xxx, where xxx = seconds to wait for inactivity
>
> The Sportster idle timer is in minutes, not seconds. (I believe all
> S-registers have a maximum value of 255.) I'd be surprised if it was
> different on Courier, but I don't know.

You are right. Never trust a manual. The manual says seconds, the
ATS$ help screen in the modem itself states minutes. I figured it out
- yep, minutes.

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