Peter,

*** Quoting Peter Knapper from a message to Sean Dennis ***

PK> Do you have a suitable EVENT covering the phone answering period?

The only event I have is this one:

[%Task%==1]
Event "Loop"     All             00:00 00:00           B

I only use BT for node 1 (my dialup).

PK> Assuming your BT/2 below is the OS/2 version, then speeds/errorlevels 
PK> are irrelevant as once its set with Bink, MAXP just inherits the File 
PK> Handle from Bink forthe modem, so it doesn't need to know any speed 
PK> setting at all.

I'm using Telegard/2, so it picks up the handle too.  Here's the problem:
when ¨my friend was calling, he didn't see anything-not BT/2 sending out an
EMSI ¨string, no banner string (which I have set up).  When he pressed ESC,
I ¨actually saw it in BT's modem window as two backarrows.  I wonder if
there's ¨something wrong in the negotiation somewhere?  I forced BT to pick
up, the two ¨modems negotiated and they just sat there.

However, he was using Hyperterminal (yeech).  He did switch to GT Term to
try ¨it out also and the same problem occured.

I'm just using this for the init strings now:

PreInit |v``^``ATZ|~
Init |ATS0=0|~
Prefix ATDT
Answer ATA|

The weird thing is that I've never had this problem before, but then again,
I ¨was using my old BT setup.  This is a new one and I haven't had a dialup
line ¨in years...

Later,
Sean

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