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- From: eric@accessorl.net (Eric Shaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: How to stop modem dialling when no dial-tone present
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 18:55:55 -0500
- Organization: Access Orlando
- Distribution: inet
- Message-ID: <eric-2801961855550001@sobt.accessorl.net>
- References: <4e0v6g$i2@etude.demon.co.uk> <DLt2v4.B1s@mail.auburn.edu>
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- In article <DLt2v4.B1s@mail.auburn.edu>, doug@eng.auburn.edu (Doug Hughes)
- wrote:
-
- >In article <4e0v6g$i2@etude.demon.co.uk>, dar@etude.demon.co.uk writes:
- >|> It works fine, except it will dial whether there is a dial tone or not
- (upsets the wife!)
- >
- >Usually, that's an ATX setting (usually ATX4 - dial without dialtone,
- >ATX3 - wait for dialtone). Make sure it's set correctly for you
- >particular modem in /etc/uucp/Dialers.
-
- This is backwards. ATX4 turns on all the checking for dialtone, busy,
- etc. ATX3 has dialtone checking turned off.
-