Subj : Re: ET phone home
To : Nick Andre
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Thu Jan 12 2017 06:59 am
NA> On 11 Jan 17 11:23:17, Roger Nelson said the following to Nick Andre:
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NA>RN> NA> KEE numbers to crash upon connection. I'm not sure if the modem
NA>RN> NA> would be disconnected ;)
NA>RN> If D'Bridge crashed, which I now remember that it would under that
NA>RN> circumstance, wouldn't the modem be disconnected automatically?
NA> Not necessarily. A system crash, or more specifically a DOS program that
NA> just decides to give-up... does not automatically drop the carrier signal
NA> on a COM port unless its told to do so or a hard-reset is done.
It just seems to me that if the program that was using the modem crashed, there
would no reason for the modem to continue the carrier.
NA> I have an archive of the source code for 1.60 I believe, I can take a
NA> look.
