Q94: Is there a way to re-init the modem after some time?


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Q.
Is there a way to re-init the modem after some time?

A.
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:34:16 +1200 (NZST)
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Auto Reinit??

On 23 Sep 1996, Keith Mitchell wrote:

> Is there anyway to automatically reinitialize the modem after so
> many minutes??
> 
> The reason is: when I dial out the the modem gets initialized (ATZ).  This
> takes the modem out of Adaptive answer mode.  After the call, just quitting
> the app doesn't reset the modem.

Are you running faxgetty(1M)? Our internal setup involves outgoing and
incoming calls, and after an outbound data call finishes, the log traces
distinctly shows faxgetty(1) reinitalizing the modem to the appropriate
state.
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Jonathan Chen                          e-mail : jonc@pinnacle.co.nz
  Pinnacle Software Ltd                Voice  : +64.9.415.4460
  Auckland, New Zealand                Fax    : +64.9.415.4250


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Matthias Apitz / guru@softcon.de ; (07:34:58 AM 01/27/97)