Re: Purpose of txtail ?

From: Jan Wasserbauer (erozjhrx@microe.com)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 17:54:59 EET

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    On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Jens David wrote:
    > John Ackermann wrote:
    > > Not all hardware implementations need it, but there are at least some systems
    > > where dropping the PTT immediately results in the tail end of the packet
    > > (including the CRC and closing flag) to be chopped off.
    >
    > In fact per definition the txtail starts after the closing flag has been sent.
    > Usually itīs the modem which causes some delay on the signal. Consider for
    > example the scrambler or the FIR filter on a G3RUH-compatible modem.
    >
    So .. ok .. txtail is important. Couldn't we use some fixed (or computed)
    value which couldn't be mis-configured ?
    (driver/baudrate/anything dependant)

      Jan



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