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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: User PPP works manually but not with script Date: 8 Jul 1996 20:58:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4rrspn$1eu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jyanek-2906962155000001@cnc099044.concentric.net> <4r5jtq$6g0@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4rd454$13d@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > Surely you mean a poor telecom line. Any modem I've seen has allowed > you to adjust the time that you can "temporarily lose carrier" without > giving up and dropping DSR. Nevertheless, one of the cheaper modems i've been using for quite some time dropped DCD for only a few hundred milliseconds. DOS software usually won't even notice this, but the sio driver did -- and (correctly) disabled the port. (The modem resurrected after the line got better again, but this was too late for the driver.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)