🚀 go-pugleaf

[Posted & Mailed]

On 30 Sep 99 10:34:40 GMT, in <alt.comp.shareware.nettamer>, ejbh@ecn.ab.ca
() wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > Forgot to add a question, (I can't find the beginning of theis thread, so
 > please endure my ignorance) are you using WINDOWS or anything that has an
 > 'inactivity' timer?  Win3.11 has a setting for inactivity of COM ports,
 > worth checking into...
    [snip]

Well first, he's using NetTamer -- which is, no doubt, the reason he posted
his original query to this NG.  ;-)

But notwithstanding that...  

No, Windows does not have any such time-out function such as you describe.
At least some of the popular dialer/packet-driver utilities (ShivaPPP for
sure, Trumpet Winsock probably) do have such timers; but that is a different
issue, since these dialers _cannot_ be used simultaneously with any comm
program which talks directly to the port (such as NetTamer).

-- Jay T. Blocksom
   ----------------------------
   Appropriate Technology, Inc.
   approtek[at]rcn.com

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