Tim Yoder wrote:

>Actually, neither the eCS nor the ISP provided dialers.  I was referring
>to the Warp 4 "Dial Other Internet Providers" (a.k.a. DOIP) software
>that I've been using to connect to a mainframe at work when I'm
>on-call.  I click on the DOIP icon and, when it opens, on the "Dial"
>icon.  The "Status" window then shows the software is attempting to
>connect to the modem (e.g. an 'AT' comand appears), but the modem
>doesn't respond.  At that point, I open an OS/2 window, type in "mode
>com3:octs=off", press , the modem responds, and
dialing begins. 
>I don't believe the "hang" has anything to do with a particular dialer,
>but it might.  So, I may just be wasting your time with something that's
>a problem only for me.
>
>By the way, setting "octs=off" seems to have something to do with
>establishing an asynchronous communications mode when using PPP instead
>of SLIP to open and initialize a serial port, according to some of my
>very old notes going back to 1998.
>  
>

Hi Tim, TomLee,
OCTS:OFF disables the CTS/RTS [CTS=clear to send, RTS=request to send] 
handshake protocol - this is the normal hardware handshake - it will 
then fallback to using DTR/DSR or XON/XOFF protocol instead.

See http://www.pccompci.com/Flow_Control.html>

HTH

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