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) Message-ID: <7622@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 4 Jul 88 19:14:20 GMT References: <28726@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: ajmyrvold@violet.waterloo.edu (Alan Myrvold) Distribution: na Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 15 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------