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From: rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Annoying problem with Telemate version 2.11
Keywords: telemate, modem, re-boot
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.233642.14639@qualcomm.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 23:36:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.190004.5873@ariel.unm.edu>
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In article <1991Mar14.190004.5873@ariel.unm.edu> kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen) writes:
>I am thinking of registering Telemate version 2.11 which is a very nice piece
>of software except (aside from the glitches in the vt-100 emulation, but that's
>another story...) for this one bug that's driving me fruity.
>
>I run a Gateway-2000 '286 machine with a Cardinal 2400 baud modem and, if I
>Telemate is in terminal mode but not connected, an incoming phone call will
>crash the computer which forces me to do a "red button" reboot.  Or this can
>happen when I'm "attack dialing" a popular bbs and somebody tries to call me
>and manages to get through between dialing attempts.  It's very frustrating...
>
>Anybody else have this problem?  You can e-mail me or post to this newsgroup.
>And I'm too cheap to buy a dedicated data-line!  :)

I've never experienced this problem, and the situation you describe has
happened many times.  Have you set auto-answer off on your modem with
ATS0=0 ?