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From: help@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Help Desk)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: uupc - uucp for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.031739.13454@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 90 03:17:39 GMT
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From article <1825.27604305@ofa123.fidonet.org>, by rick@ofa123.fidonet.org (Rick Ellis):
> On <Dec 07 00:44> rick/1024000 writes:
> 
>  r> BTW, uupc does a really strange
>  r> thing. When waiting for inbound traffic, it turns off auto answer on
>  r> the modem and waits for the modem to echo the word 'RING'.
> 
> It's not strange, it's polite.  Auto answer would pick up the line
> even if the program had crashed.  Waiting for 'RING' and then telling
> the modem to pick up the call keeps long distance charges for useless
> calls down.

Polite is not the word I would use.  I was downright paraniod about the
program crashing and leaving the modem in an unknown state when I wrote
that,  which by the way went into UUPC when I had only been working on
it for about a week in May 1989.  I think I also had problems with it
losing characters or hanging up the phone when it auto-answered, I am
unsure but I do know I switched it back and forth a few times before
leaving it waiting for the RING.

I must have missed the original question on UUPC; did some have a
question on it?  (For the uninformed, I'm the current maintainer of
it.)

Drew Derbyshire

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