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From: stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Auto-answer on modem
Keywords: telemate, modem, re-boot
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.163105.3401@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 16:31:05 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.190004.5873@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Mar14.233642.14639@qualcomm.com> <1991Mar15.161121.14644@ariel.unm.edu>
Reply-To: stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung)
Organization: Columbia University
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Hearing some talk about in-coming phone-calls crashs a computer,
come to think of it, I have a modem problem that has been bothering
me for about a year now.  I am using an old Ven-Tel 2400 baud external
modem over COM2: with TELIX.  The init string specifically says

    ATZ~~~AT ...... S0=0 .....
                    ^^^^

meaning no auto-answer, right?  The modem, however, still auto-answers,
and that is very annoying because it picks up the phone before I have
a chance to run over.  I keep my modem on whenever my computer is on,
and so there's this problem.

Anybody knows how I can disable auto-answer forever?  This modem has no
dip switches on the back, and I don't have the manual anymore.  Otherwise,
does anybody know how to send ATS0=0 to the modem without running
a communications program?  I can then send the string to the modem in
my AUTOEXEC.BAT and see if it solves the problem.

Thanks a lot.

- Stephen