Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!violet!ajmyrvold
From: ajmyrvold@violet.waterloo.edu (Alan Myrvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: need info (incoming calls while using modem)
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Date: 4 Jul 88 19:14:20 GMT
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In article <28726@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> wangzh@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Zhu Wang) writes:
>    Forgive me if this is a too old or too naive question: should there be
>a device or whatever that can detect the incoming calls while I am using
>the modem to dial up a remote computer? Thanks in advance.

This isn't the best of solutions - but some friends of mine have that
"Call-Waiting" feature from Bell where an incoming call interrupts
the current call with a beep.

Their modem gets confused by the beep and drops the line, terminating the
remote session.

					Alan Myrvold
					ajmyrvold@violet.waterloo.edu
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