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

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Subject: Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?
From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
Date: 01 Apr 1999 07:55:12 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 87677gmon3.fsf@hasler.dhh>
In-reply-to: Hamish Moffatt's message of "Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:31:13 +1000"
References: <E10SZyA-0006wN-00@localhost> <m21zi4j3s4.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> <[🔎] 19990401183113.E6177@rising.com.au>

Hamish Moffatt writes:
> In my experience, the noise of the line being picked and up dropped by
> the other modem will interfere with the session -- it will almost
> certainly cause the modems to retrain, and may cause them to hang up.

This depends very much on the particular modem.  The one I have now is
pretty much immune to my wife picking up the phone, but my previous one
dropped the connection at the slightest click.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

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