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From: tom@hcr.UUCP (Tom Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: PC 7300: Phone Manager vs. uucp
Message-ID: <2772@hcr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 17:33:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: hcr.2772
Posted: Tue Aug 11 17:33:51 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 04:33:56 EDT
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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I too have been looking for a way to switch the phone line from
VOICE 1: IDLE to DATA 1 without human intervention.  I have discovered
that killing the Phone Manager process (ph) and removing the LCK..ph0
file does the trick, in that uucp will now use the line on demand.
Furthermore, the line is no longer automatically answered.

I would prefer a more elegant way, partly because cu(1) doesn't seem
to work, and I like using the phone manager for terminal emulation
because you can swap between the remote session and a local unix session.

I have been having a few problems with the communications system though,
and if anyone has suggestions or insights, I'll be grateful.

The basic problem is that sometimes the modem seems to get into a strange
state.  A symptoms of this state are that when uucp is dialing, I can hear
the dial tone and ringing (as I can when ph is dialing for me).  Another,
more serious problem is that the connection is dropped as soon as the
remote site answers (uucp reports LOST LINE, ph reports disconnection).

Sometimes I can clear the condition by toggling between VOICE and DATA
mode.  Sometimes that doesn't work, but I can do it by killing ph and
restarting it.  Sometimes nothing seems to work short of a reboot (which
so far has always worked).

I have only noticed this with ph running, but haven't run the other
way long enough to say that ph is a contributing factor.

Any advice or comments by mail please to me, and I'll post a summary.
Thanks.


Tom Kelly (416) 922-1937
HCR Corporation, 130 Bloor St. W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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