full-disclosure - Ancient Trivia: +++ath0

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Message-ID: <1079617739.8988.14.camel@flybynight>
From: lscharf at aoe.vt.edu (Luke Scharf)
Subject: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 21:30, cstone wrote:
> * = Hayes has a patent on a scheme to protect against unintentional
> triggering of the escape sequence; on their modems, you have to
> wait a specific amount of time before and after the +++ before
> issuing a command.  

Doh!  I thought that there was an easier way to escape the escape
sequence.  Too much Unix -- '\+\+\+' :-)

But, still, isn't a string of characters that the modem won't transfer
something that the communications system on a PC should handle?

Anyway, I'm starting to get nostalgic about the old BBS days -- maybe I
should put my old one up again?  But, they just haven't the same since I
started using the WWW, and telnet BBSs just don't do it for me.

-Luke

-- 
Luke Scharf, Systems Administrator
Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean Engineering