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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Boom! You're Dead.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.133231.17199@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 13:32:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Jul24.133231.17199
- References: <2043@tymix.tymnet.com> <1992Jul18.142320.4269@qiclab.scn> <1992Jul24.031631.26450@chinet.chi.il.us>
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- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
-
- >Yes, maybe back in 1980 someone actually had a reason to put the
- >modem in command mode in the middle of a connection. Maybe they
- >were using software that didn't offer the ability to drop DTR.
-
- As I've said elsewhere, *I* need dropping DTR to drop the *connection*
- as well as go into command mode. So it is unsuitable.
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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