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From: csachs@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Colin Sachs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Modem picks up fone (response)
Summary: Communications package problems perhaps?
Message-ID: <728@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 18 Aug 89 00:52:46 GMT
References: <1222@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU>
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Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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>> /* ---------- "modem picks up phone" ---------- */
>> When my pc-clone is powered up, my 2400 baud hayes-compatible
>> modem insists on picking up the phone (hoping to get a carrier).

> My next-door neighbor is having the same problem with an old Leading Edge
> machine.  His internal 1200bd seizes the phone line.  We've tried every
> DIP switch combination we can think of, ...

Some software communcations packages allow for autoanswer disable/enable
that can be stored in nonvolitile ram or registers on your modem...
Are they Hayes or Hayes compatables?  Try setting S0=0 and using the
&W command to save the configuration change.  If the modems came with
documentation, they must have something about this problem in them.
-- 
Colin Sachs    -    csachs@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu

   "I believe in everything; nothing is sacred.
    I believe in nothing; everything is sacred."  -the Chink