Re: FW: RE Modem identification

From: Pawel Krawczyk (kravietzat_private)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 03:55:00 PDT

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    On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:01:01AM +0200, Dawes, Rogan (ZA - Johannesburg) wrote:
    
    > I started writing a War Dialler in Perl for Unix/Linux that would simply
    > take a list of numbers and dial them, recording the banners, and doing a bit
    > of prompting to stimulate banners if none were forthcoming. But one of the
    > things that I have no idea how to do is the "Automatic Parity conversion"
    > that Tone-LOC did, when connecting to a different parity modem.
    
    This works probably by trying all possible encodings (8N1, 7E1 etc.)
    and looking at the result. Whichever seems to be plain ASCII, is probably
    the right guess.
    
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