Subj : ET phone home
To   : Roger Nelson
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Jan 12 2017 02:13 pm


 On 2017 Jan 12 06:59:08, you wrote to Nick Andre:

 NA>> Not necessarily. A system crash, or more specifically a DOS program
 NA>> that just decides to give-up... does not automatically drop the
 NA>> carrier signal on a COM port unless its told to do so or a hard-reset
 NA>> is done.

 RN> It just seems to me that if the program that was using the modem
 RN> crashed, there would no reason for the modem to continue the carrier.

if the modem is internal, it may very well shut down... an external one, on the 
other hand, may not... it depends on how it is configured with the serial 
control lines and what happens to them when the software or system goes down... 
this is one of the reasons why i always use external modems and not internal 
ones... externals i can just turn off and rest but internals have to have the 
machine rebooted and maybe even hard rebooted or powered off instead of just a 
soft boot...

)\/(ark

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