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- CDTRAP.COM -- Carrier Loss Trap for PClones 18 Sep 87
-
- Tom Jennings
- Fido Software
- 164 Shipley
- San Francisco CA 94107
-
- CDTRAP is a program used to monitor the modem while
- "outside" the Fido system, and reboot the system if carrier
- is lost.
-
- The assumption here is that you are using Fido's O)utside or
- E)xitDOS command for sysop-only access to DOS commands.
- Without CDTRAP or a similar program, if you were
- disconnected for some reason, your computer would
- mindlessly wait for the next command, but since Fido is no
- longer in control it would sit there until you manually
- rebooted the machine.
-
- (Previous Fido versions would give the NEXT PERSON WHO
- CALLED IN access to your DOS.)
-
- CDTRAP is easy to use: in your batch file (see sample
- "RUNFIDO.BAT" on Fido Software's BBS) you install CDTRAP
- before you run COMMAND.COM; before you exit to Fido, you un-
- install CDTRAP.
-
-
- CDTRAP ;installs it
-
- CDTRAP R ;removes it
-
- When CDTRAP is run, it first checks to see if was installed
- previously; if so, it turns that previous copy "ON" or "OFF"
- as indicated. Only if there is no CDTRAP resident does it
- install itself in memory.
-
- CDTRAP as supplied inserts itself into the PClones timer
- tick, and monitors the modem status port of COM1 every tick,
- or 55mS. If carrier is lost it causes the system to reboot.
-
- To use CDTRAP with COM2, or a non-PClone machine, you will
- need to edit and reassemble the program.
-
-