Bill, at 11:25 on Wed, Jun 14 1995, you wrote to Paul Edwards ...

PE>> So?  It'll stack up for the few days you're away.  I'm 
PE>> surprised you're bothering with anything while you're away, 
PE>> why not just stop calling both places for 5 days?  That's 
PE>> what I would do.

BG> Trouble is, I'm away for three weeks.  Anyway, David's board 
BG> is back up again, and I'm afraid to ask him what went wrong, 
BG> in case he thinks I'm having a sly dig at him again (it 
BG> wasn't the first time he crashed, you know).

I may be old and toothless, but I'm not bloody blind mate!

The reason the board "crashed" was that I "upgraded" my
idiotproof modem's FlashROM.  Two new speeds meant that Binkley now exits
with two new errorlevels.  The problem came about when I forgot to trap
these new errorlevels.  When someone called at 33,600 on Saturday arvo it
exited with an errorlevel of 80 (decimal) which performed some batch
operation and recycled back to Binkley.  The entity tried to connect again
and got 31,200 which exits with an errorlevel of 56.  I didn't have 56
trapped.  I did have 50 trapped however which drops into a local log
listing routine and waits for keyboard input.

When I got home and pressed escape, the BBS came back up.

Modems - harrumph!
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David
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