🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Dec27.164648.28822@inso.pr.net.ch> raju@inso.pr.net.ch (Raju Varghese) writes:
>chris@castlab.uucp (Christian) writes:
>
>>Question for all you wise people-
>
>>Is there an easy way to hang up on a modem if there is more than x minutes of
>>idle time? I don't want to write a c program... it seems you could just have
>>cron do its thing every 15 minutes or so, and reset ttya if its idle > hour.
>>Any hints?
>
>My Practical Peripherals modem (which claims to be Hayes Ultra Smart modem
>9600 compatible) has a software switch (S30  to be precise) which can be
>used specifically for this purpose. The idle time can be set in tens of
>seconds. The max idle time is 255 x 10 seconds.
>
>Is this what you were inquiring about or, did I misunderstand the question?
>
>Raju  raju@inso.pr.net.ch

(Thumbing through technical manual of my Hayes Ultra 96), HOLY COW!
By god, that's exactly what I was looking for! Its perfect! Ok ok, I'm calm
now... really, this is great because I can do this directly in the modem and
not need to use a cron job (whoever it was that suggested untamo, thanks
too, but this looks like it is much easier.)

Thanks a bunch...


-Chris