Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!onfcanim!dave
From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: dial in/out and modem state
Message-ID: <15551@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 07:18:28 GMT
References: <142@mccc.UUCP> <564@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> <10321@mimsy.UUCP> <178@jim.odr.oz> <10379@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
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In article <10379@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>Any decent modem will be able to reset to EEPROM or switch settings
>on DTR drop.  (This makes the Hayes 2400 indecent, since doing this
>requires giving up something else, as I understand it.)

Indeed.  You can configure the modem so that when DTR drops it
1) hangs up the phone and will not answer incoming calls, or
2) resets the modem to the settings in EEPROM.

Unfortunately, you want BOTH of these, and Hayes forces you to choose
just one (or none) of them.