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 09:41:59 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 87wvzwl54o.fsf@hasler.dhh>
In-reply-to: Carl Johnson's message of "31 Mar 1999 20:57:47 -0800"
References: <E10SWOs-0000gN-00@ppp-x9-46.ecn.purdue.edu> <87vhfhm6v9.fsf@hasler.dhh> <[🔎] 87aewtym2c.fsf@cjlinux.localnet>

Carl Johnson writes:
> You might want to look into the 'connect' program from
> 'http://www.caesium.fr/freeware/connect/'.

Interesting, but it doesn't address Mark's problem.  It also requires that
pppd be configured in an idiosyncratic fashion.

> It tracks multiple connect attempts so none trample over each other.

There is no reason why they should.  Pppd locks the serial port.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

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