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- From: hewho1@aol.com (Hewhocannotbenamed)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,alt.winsock.trumpet
- Subject: Re: modemsta 1.8 and the OH light
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 15:47:31 GMT
- Organization: org1
- Message-ID: <4cbk2j$omq@zippy.cais.net>
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- In article <4caeaq$kkl@shellx.best.com>, Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) wrote:
- >In article <4c96ep$a4m@zippy.cais.net>, hewho1@aol.com says...
- >>
- >>I've been playing around with modemsta and can't find anything like the OH
- >>light on external modems. But knowing whether the phone is or goes off hook
- >>(OH) is one of the best things about external modems. How does modemsta
- >tell
- >>you this?
- >
- >when i tried modemsta 1.7 once for the heck of it, it didnt show a OH
- >light, it does not support the oh light because there is no rs232 pinout
- >for the OH light. if the cts/rts/cd lights are on modemsta its a good
- >guess that the modem is OH as well, duh
- >
-
- Well, turns out there's really no reliable way to know if you're offhook or
- not. The OH light in the courier view is non-operational (has an x thru it to
- explicitly tell you this!), and come to think of it, since modemsta monitors
- only the serial port, it would hard to have an OH light. Also, the current
- lights on modemsta, in any combination, don't seem to give you a good way of
- knowing if you're offhook, or if you're just lost the phone connection.
-
- Anyway, external modems are much better than internals for that reason, and
- also because when modems hang (and they do), who wants to power down and power
- up the whole computer and then have to re-load all your programs in memory?
-