Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Phone busy with Modem signalling
Message-ID: <1989May10.165808.892@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8905090741.AA18208@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 May 89 16:58:08 GMT

In article <8905090741.AA18208@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> JAJZ801@CALSTATE.BITNET (Jeff Sicherman,CSU Long Beach) writes:
>... When it is in use, we would like it to light the button
>on the phone system for that line - which it currently does not do, so
>people occasionally interrupt the modem call and file transfers.

Well, this is kind of the rich man's solution, but if you switch to
Trailblazers, in PEP mode you can pick up the phone all you like and
the Trailblazers will ignore you.  Dial the phone, sing into it,
shout into it... the most that will happen is that the modems will
sort of mutter to themselves "sure is a lot of noise on this line".
You practically have to cut the wire to make a Trailblazer break a
connection.
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Mars in 1980s:  USSR, 2 tries, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
2 failures; USA, 0 tries.      | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu