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- From: 1012breuckma@vms.csd.mu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Looking for `Magic' rebooter box for 'phone line..
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 00:59:27 GMT
- Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
- Lines: 18
- Message-ID: <00963845.451E2220@vms.csd.mu.edu>
- References: <1992Nov11.182556.49887@ccvax.ucd.ie>
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- In article <1992Nov11.182556.49887@ccvax.ucd.ie>, ctoomey@ccvax.ucd.ie writes:
- >I'm looking for something that I seem to remember having seen in the back pages
- >of some magazine or other, and I'm wondering if anyone knows of such a
- >beastie..
- >
- >We have a machine running pcAnywhere, to allow a user in Germany access to our
- >NetWare 3.11 LAN here in Ireland. What sometimes happens is that the line will
- >get dropped, due to a VERY noisy line etc., and the pcAnywhere host will not go
- >back to answering the line, but sit there needing someone to tell it to start
- >answering the phone again [it doesn't stick the modem into Autoanswer, but just
- >looks for a 'RING' from the comm. port].
- >
- >
- Do you have the most recent pcanywhere? The one I have DOES put the modem
- into autoanswer mode. It also has an option to reboot the host system
- on loss of carrier. (I use that just to get a clean start, log off the
- network if the user hadn't, etc.).
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