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From: wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (Gang of Three)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Modem picks up fone (response)
Message-ID: <1222@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU>
Date: 2 Aug 89 13:33:37 GMT
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Organization: Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando
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> /* ---------- "modem picks up phone" ---------- */
> When my pc-clone is powered up, my 2400 baud hayes-compatible
> modem insists on picking up the phone (hoping to get a carrier).
> I don't want this; I want to be able to have the computer on
> and pick up the phone and respond to voice messages.  How do
> I fix this?

My next-door neighbor is having the same problem with an old Leading Edge
machine.  His internal 1200bd seizes the phone line.  We've tried every
DIP switch combination we can think of, although none of them seem to
affect that function in the first place.  His normal procedure has been
to plug and unplug the modem from the wall right when he's ready to have it
dial a number.

-- Marcus