On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:38:44AM -0800, John Leong wrote:
"No answer", to me, as an ISP customer would mean that there is a broken modem somewhere that is not answering the phone. Definitely different than "Busy."
The modem return code, unfortunately is often not precise.
You can say _that_ again. this is rapidly veering off topic, so replies privately, please, but does _anyone_ know why 15 years after Bell standardized on different SIT tone sequences for differen error conditions, modems _still_ can't report the proper error? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592