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- From: revc@Garg.Campbell.CA.US (Bob Van Cleef)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
- Message-ID: <mmpYrAaDBh107h@Garg.Campbell.CA.US>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 08:29:10 -0800
- References: <C17MDu.EMF@cs.psu.edu> <P0mTXB1w165w@patsbbs.alt.za>
- Organization: The Land of Garg
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- In <P0mTXB1w165w@patsbbs.alt.za> pat@patsbbs.alt.za writes:
- >Just in passing - I use a little program called "watchcat" which
- >co-exists happily with my fossil (X00). Watchcat monitors both
- >CD and the RING signals from the modem, and if the phone rings
- >more than 20 times without the modem answering will assume that
- >the BBS is stuck, and will reboot! This has saved me hassles on
- >a number of occasions :-)
-
- Do you (or anyone monitoring this conversation) know of a reboot
- program that will work with Win 3.1? I've got a couple of DOS
- programs that I can run as a scheduled event under DOS, but Win3.1
- intercepts them and refuses to allow them to function.
-
- What could work is a small TSR that ran before Windows was started
- and behaved as you described "watchcat".
-
- Second question: Is Watchcat available for redistribution?
-
- Bob
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