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Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?



Mark Phillips writes:
> Anyway, I don't want this to happen again, so I would like, if possible,
> to write a script which does nothing except listen to the modem line for
> a few seconds so that I can hear whether someone else is using it.

I think I may have misunderstood you earlier.  Your father is using a
different computer with a different modem?  I don't really see why your
modem going off-hook should have killed his connection.  Do you have his
modem connected to the "phone" socket on your modem?
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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