🚀 go-pugleaf

I have my NeXT set up to always look for dialin access, and it allows
dial-out (uucp as well) as well.

The problem:  Sometimes, and only sometimes, when someone dials in, the
computer still sends out what seem to be modem control codes.  Over and over
and over again.

Here's the pertinent line in my /etc/ttys file; everything else 'cept the
console is 'off':

ttydfa  "/usr/etc/getty std.38400"      vt100           on

And here's the entries in /etc/gettytab:

default:\
        :zp:p8:im=\r\n\r\nWelcome to the WhooshMeister! (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\
        :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#38400:\
        :lo=/bin/login:tt=vt100:
.....
# Fixed speed entries
....
h|std.38400|38400-baud|\
        :sp#38400:
....

getty is running with 'std.38400 ttydfa' as its param so it uses the 'h' line
up there.  I have no rotary entry for the modem because it only talks to the
computer at 38.4Kbps anyway.

(it's a SupraFAX v32bis modem, NeXTconnection '040 hardware flow control
cable.)

For dialing out I use the latest wermit and set line to /dev/cufa (ditto for
those times I use tip).

Now, when this happens, my console gets messages like
 !! Cannot reset modem lines
 !! resetting modem
Although those are *not* the exact messages and I keep forgetting to save
them.  [side note:  I sure as h*ll wish programmers would put the program
name that's generating the errors in the output]

When the person hangs up and calls again, things are fine.

Is this the result of a nicely timed dialin where the modem answers the phone
in the middle of the computer making sure things are OK?  I poll my uucp site
every hour, but the call-ins are not _near_ that time.

Any clues?
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Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
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There was a young poet named Dan,
Whose poetry never would scan.
	When told this was so,
	He said, "Yes, I know.
It's because I try to put every possible syllable into that last line that I
can."