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From: "Bob Mergner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Release The Modem
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:46:19 -0500
Organization: gte.net
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Hi,

I am running an automated dialer from a script file that fires up once an
hour and delivers files to a remote machine.  Now I have an additional
remote machine that needs files.  I have to be able to allow 2 instances of
K95 to utilize the same modem to do this.  Since previously I would loop on
an error and try again. the second copy cannot get a hold of the modem if
the first copy goes into an error and loops.  To get around this, I want to
put a pause into my error loop and let go of the modem, to give the second
copy a chance to get in there and run.  The only thing I could find that
works is to issue a Set Line command telling it to grab a different device.
For example, Set Line LPT1 allows the second job to get through, then when
the second job is done, he sets line to LPT1 (or terminates) and the first
job will Set Line back to the modem, and try again.

Is there some other way to make the first job let go of the modem that's not
such a hack?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Bob Mergner
Healthworks Alliance, Inc.