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- From: chris@castlab.uucp (Christian)
- Subject: Re: To kill a modem...
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 28 Dec 92 10:08:25 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.100826.868@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- References: <1992Dec27.005926.12997@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Dec27.010353.13086@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <1992Dec27.164648.28822@inso.pr.net.ch>
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- 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
-