Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?

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From: pat
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:40

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fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:

> If hogbbs didn't answer the phone, would you bother to keep trying?
> Maybe it's processing a couple of megs of news and will be coming back
> online in 10 minutes.  Maybe it's locked and will come back online when
> I come home and notice it.
> 
> If I make the phone busy while it's processing, then it's almost a
> certainty that if it doesn't answer the phone, it's crashed, and you
> shouldn't bother attack-dialing.

Just in passing - I use a little program called "watchcat" which
co-exists happily with my fossil (X00).  Watchcat monitors both
CD and the RING signals from the modem, and if the phone rings
more than 20 times without the modem answering will assume that
the BBS is stuck, and will reboot!  This has saved me hassles on
a number of occasions :-)

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From: pat@patsbbs.alt.za
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Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 08:40:12 +0200
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