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- From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck)
- Subject: Re: Disconnect Phantom
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.114441.25855@mits.mdata.fi>
- Keywords: Knock it off!!
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- References: <1992Sep4.023741.3497@leela.cs.orst.edu> <1992Sep4.091759.4300@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Sep5.034957.3024@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 11:44:41 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <1992Sep5.034957.3024@leland.Stanford.EDU> gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep4.091759.4300@nntp.hut.fi> tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand) writes:
- >> tsand@vipunen.hut.fi
- >>TEX disconnects, dial again for another session.
- >>D;+vC)?iH%"
- >>NO CARRIER
- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Keep this crap out of your posts!!
- >
- >For those not dialing in on modems - it makes my modem think the session
- >has ended. When I reconnect - I find that the session is still active.
- >Has this caused anyone else any problems, like disconnecting without properly
- >logging out and closing the session?
- >Flames, jokes, sarcasm, etc. are the expected hazards of participating
- >in the newsgroups, but keep your posts off of our hardware!!!!!!
-
- My guess is that you're running very unintelligent software whose
- author has never heard of a magical RS-pin called "Carrier Detect".
- Though I can't really believe somebody would make his/her terminal
- software drop DTR just because of a "NO CARRIER" string... (Or
- whatever it does, I can't really make it out of your text. Usually
- any hosting UNIX or BBS should also detect loss of carrier.)
-
- In my opinion no terminal or modem should care anything about the
- character stream with two exceptions; VTxxx/ANSI control codes,
- and Zmodem download strings (for the lazy). Unless, of course, there
- will be some new universal Usenet code set to insert special effects
- into your postings.
-
- --
- kennu@mits.mdata.fi
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