On Sep 17 18:03 95, Gert Lynge of 2:238/111.3 wrote to Jerry Schwartz:
JS>> If the speaker sounds like a ring is coming in, then I suspect it is.
JS>> The question is, Why?
GL> Yes, thats the question... I tried to get the answer from the company 
where 
GL> I
GL> bought the modem... But I'm the only one with the problem... Anyway, the
GL> old U-1496 did'nt do it... Maybe it's a hardware problem in my modem... 
GL> I'll try to call the company again...
JS>>   Perhaps FroDo isn't hanging up the phone long
JS>> enough
GL> ??? As you can see I'm just a point. When my FD hangs up the phone it 
exits 
GL> and don't restart until the next time I want to recv./send mail. I only 
GL> make one call each time I start FD... The reason i noticed the "RING" 
from 
GL> the modem was
GL> because i was playing arround with the "exit when mail received" 
setting...
JS>> and your central office is doing something odd.
GL> This is probably the case if it's not a firmware/hardware problem... 
Where 
GL> I
GL> live we still got one of these old-fashion analog telephone centrals... 
:-(
That's what I suspected.  Some phone systems would, if you "flashed" 
(one-second hangup) before hanging up try to ring you back.  I only vaguely 
remember running into this behavior years ago.  When FD exits, make sure it 
simply drops DTR once.
Jerry Schwartz
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