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From: johnl@n3dmc.UU.NET (John Limpert)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: modem problem
Message-ID: <534@n3dmc.UU.NET>
Date: 6 Feb 89 12:22:33 GMT
References: <787@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> <277@gp.govt.nz> <7642@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: johnl@n3dmc.UUCP (John Limpert)
Organization: N3DMC, Silver Spring, Maryland
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In article <7642@chinet.chi.il.us> patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes:
>In the US Robotics Courier 2400 instruction manual see page C-4, and refer
>to Switch 9. I don't personally know why anyone would want to use it in
>the mode where it immediatly disconnects the phone, but I guess some people
>must use it that way.

It's a security feature.  Many BBS systems used to have problems with
people misconfiguring the system's modem.

-- 
John A. Limpert
UUCP:	johnl@n3dmc.UUCP, johnl@n3dmc.UU.NET, uunet!n3dmc!johnl