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From: chan@portal.UUcp (Jeff Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: modem picks up phone
Keywords: modem, hayes, autoanswer
Message-ID: <157@portal.UUcp>
Date: 3 Aug 89 07:27:53 GMT
Organization: Portal Communications, Cupertino, CA
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Thanks to those who answered my query about disabling the autoanswer
feature of my Hayes-compatible modem.   It seems that there is a modem-
internal register S0 that controls the number of rings before the modem
picks up.  

I haven't tried yet, but the consensus was that setting this register 
to 0 by using "echo ATS0=0 > COMn", where n is the modem's com port number,
should disable this.  Others also suggested seeking out a dip switch
which may do the same thing in hardware.  For now I will try the former,
and will investigate the latter when I re-find the modem documentation.

Again, many thanks to those who responded!

Jeff C.