-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 ml> i didn't have that... i think one thing was waffle wanting to drop the
 ml> "modem" connection when the user logged out... i forget what i did to
 ml> get around that but it was not ignoring the DTR... when loggin out of

I had to ignore DTR, because I wanted the modem to stay up during a reboot,
which did drop DTR, and couldn't be changed.

 ml> waffle, in my setup, it did return to RA with no problems... i think we
 ml> may have done the "relogon" thing around the same time... i recall
 ml> having that because memory was pretty tight still and swapping out was
 ml> ok for somethings but not others... so yeah, i think my waffle was an
 ml> exit with an error level to the .bat to run waffle and then it would
 ml> exit back with another errorlevel which i used to relogin to RA or to
 ml> go on back to the mailer since the line was disconnected... that was
 ml> quite some time back, man :)

RAM was always at a premium in those days, so yeah recycling the batch file had
definite advantages.  My setup could have incorporated Waffle or some other
software that way, but I didn't go down that route.


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