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From: mwm@dunsel.berkeley.edu (Mike Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Dave Weckers VT100 (kermit)
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 20:50:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 20 20:50:13 1986
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In article <196@dayton.UUCP> bill@dayton.UUCP () writes:
>In article <93500035@convex> danny@convex.UUCP writes:
>>No no no no.  This is a feature, not a bug!  
>   [stuff]
>>                                                 PROGRAMMERS!
>>DON'T TRY TO HANG UP THE PHONE!  If I want to hang up my phone,
>>I'll send:  <pause>+++<pause>ATH
>
>Nonsense.  That is a bug (mayhaps an intentional one.) If you
>want to leave the program, and run another term program without
>hanging up the modem, set the "FORCE DTR" switch in the modem
>or jimmy your cable.  When a serial device is closed, DTR should drop.
>This sending <pause>+++ stuff is giberish.

Nonsense. This is a feature, not a bug. Of course, the HANG UP (drop
DTR) menu entry is a must. While <pause>+++ is gibberish, so is
jimmying the cable or having the modem ignore DTR to get the needed
functionality.

Two exits (drop DTR then exit and exit with DTR high) is also a nice
feature.

	<mike