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From: mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Autodialer from Hell
Message-ID: <361@cocktrice.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 00:46:55 GMT
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In article <3221@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> keithl@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
>Yes, I have an Autodialer from Hell.
>
>Due to a single digit error in my L.sys file, my modem has been harrassing
>some poor fellow for months.   I'm not the first to make this mistake, though 
>perhaps the first to admit it over the net.  

Well, since someone else has admitted it... :-) Actually, I find that when I
am adding a new entry to L.sys that it is very prudent to turn up the modem
speaker and moniter a couple of connections with the command:

	/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -ssystemname -x5

If I get a voice, then it is time to check the entry again. Usually after a
couple of successful connections, it is possible to let the machine take it
from there.

If on the other hand, you are dialing a shared voice/data line, then you will
have to arrange the times you can call this number and expect to get a modem
to answer. This information should go into the L.sys file too.

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