Hello Michele.

20 May 04 14:12, you wrote to me:

 BS>> Didn't you get my netmail reply?
 MD>         Aparently not. thats why I am trying to find an alternative
 MD> way to keep linked up. I bookmarked your RC address and will try to
 MD> forward packets through him.

Netmail should be okay.

 MD> Not sure how you will get back to me. A
 MD> message did get passed along which was the one we are  kinda of
 MD> replying to. Not sure if its the forwarded message or the original
 MD> email message.

Hmm.. My e-mail address is bo{at}geekworld.dk, if you'll send me a e-mail if
the netmail doesn't work.

 MD>         Since its a Muffin topic anyway might as well send echomail
 MD> when possible so people won't get out of the loop.
 BS>> I see, but the problem isn't at your place.. I need to rewrite
 BS>> the stuff, the problem is which I think I've been writing to you,
 BS>> is that Max doesn't register if the caller is online or not,
 BS>> which confuses my communication module.
 MD>         Just for a quick test how does /sbin/agetty or /sbin/mgetty in
 MD> Linux or freeBSD deal with carrier loss? Isn't there a system call
 MD> that one could query to check the DCD status info? How about how
 MD> Binkleyterm XE determines if the caller is still online or not?

There should be, but the DTR would be on, even if there is no caller..
Maybe I don't know mutch about this thing. :/

Bo

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