Thankyou for your reply. I do admit that I have a lot to learn about comms
¨but if i thought it would be this hard, I would never have considered it!
¨Anyway, I have narrowed the problem down to the fact that when the modem
¨connects to the other end (after the "ATDT------" command), it
is still ¨listening to me and not the other end (although a carrier signal
has been ¨detected). I know this because I can still send my modem commands
after ¨connection and no lights come on to show the receiving of any data
from the ¨other end.

My modem is a Netcomm Roadster 288 and the command ATO0 (Enter on-line
¨state), which I issue after a connection, causes the modem to hang up and
the ¨connection is lost. When and how should I issue the ATO command so as
to ¨instruct my modem to listen to the other end and NOT ME.

Thanks for all your help and I will keep to the topic (I'm fairly new to
all ¨this BBS stuff, so bear with me!) from now on. I have no more problems
¨regarding the programming side of things - just getting the modem to do
what ¨I want it to is the tricky bit!

Ta,
   Damian Harden

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