MG> Since I know you are well versed in the BBS Biz you know that some BBS
 MG> software goes brain dead and refuses to answer the phone (for one reason
 MG> or another) but still act as though they are working but can not talk to
 MG> the modem any longer. That would make it necessary to either kill the
 MG> BBS process and restart it OR shutdown the system and reboot it.

Then kill the process. Since you're already detecting the fact that it's
hung, and since you can kill processes programmatically, you have a much
better solution than that old horrible Dos anachronism of resetting the
machine.

Jeff

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