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From: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: PC 7300: Phone Manager vs. uucp
Message-ID: <112@uncle.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 05:05:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: uncle.112
Posted: Mon Aug 17 05:05:45 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Aug-87 04:30:38 EDT
References: <2772@hcr.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Organization: Just me and my computer, Columbus Ohio
Lines: 31


I had a problem with my system that might be related. The reason it might be
is that I had to do the line toggle. My problem is mostly that I don't have
two phone lines. I wanted to be able to use data and the phone manager and
the off-hook sensing stuff. What I did was put a Y on my one phone line and
plug one of each leg of the Y into line 1 and line 2. Everything seemed to
work just fine for a while. Then I noticed that one night uucp couldn't get
out. So I tried to do a remote dial terminal emulator. It would kind of go
off for a while, then come back complaining about line problems.

To get out of this situation, I called up the phone manager and switched
voice from line 1 to 2 and back. After that it would work fine for a while.
I would get a dumb look on my face, shrug my shoulders and go on. Then it
would do the same exact thing the next night. What I seemed to track it down
to was ringing. Things would lock up after a ring. It might be that the PC
can't deal with both lines ringing at the same exact time. There might also
be some kind of weird current looping problem that only happens on some
machine/line/connection/switcher/phase-of-the-moon situation. Whatever, I
gave up and moved the Y connection further down. What I have now amounts to
tap. In this setup the PC doesn't know when I pick up the phone. One of these
days I will be able to afford to buy another line.

I hope this is useful to someone.

John


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