On Friday 18 June 2004 09:09, Craig White wrote: > generally a com program needs to 'connect' or 'dial' (with a direct > connection, dialing is the same as connecting) And what do I dial too? Wait a second here! I am connecting to a serial port (ttyS?)(duhhhh! S=serial)(so that means my modem is considered a serial then) So how do you reinitialize the serial port? It must be 'Hangup' and then 'initialize Modem'. Do I have to shut the whole program down? So then, to be sure all of my ducks are in a row: comm parameters are 9600 8N1 ──────────[Terminal settings]───────────┐ │ A - Terminal emulation : VT102 │ B - Backspace key sends : BS │ C - Status line is : enabled │ D - Newline delay (ms) : 0 └─────────────────────────────┘ File transfer proitocols are: ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │ Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi │ A zmodem /usr/bin/sz -vv -b Y U N Y Y │ B ymodem /usr/bin/sb -vv Y U N Y Y │ C xmodem /usr/bin/sx -vv Y U N Y N │ D zmodem /usr/bin/rz -vv -b -E N D N Y Y │ E ymodem /usr/bin/rb -vv N D N Y Y │ F xmodem /usr/bin/rx -vv Y D N Y N │ G kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N │ H kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N │ I ascii /usr/bin/ascii-xfr -dsv Y U N Y N │ M Zmodem download string activates... D │ N Use filename selection window...... Yes │ O Prompt for download directory...... No └────────────────────────────────┘ Serial port settings are: ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ A - Serial Device: /dev/ttyS7 (tried ttySL0, S0,S1,S2,S3,S4,S5,S6 and ttyS7) │ B - Lockfile Location : /var/lock │ │ C - Callin Program : │ │ D - Callout Program : │ │ E - Bps/Par/Bits : 9600 8N1 │ │ F - Hardware Flow Control : Yes │ │ G - Software Flow Control : No │ └────────────────────────────┘ ┌────────[Modem and dialing parameter setup]──────┐ │ A - Init string ......... ~^M~AT S7=45 S0=0 L1 V1 X4 &c1 E1 Q0^M │ B - Reset string ........ ^M~ATZ^M~ │ C - Dialing prefix #1.... ATDT │ D - Dialing suffix #1.... ^M │ E - Dialing prefix #2.... ATDP │ F - Dialing suffix #2.... ^M │ G - Dialing prefix #3.... ATX1DT │ H - Dialing suffix #3.... ;X4D^M │ I - Connect string ...... CONNECT │ J - No connect strings .. BUSY │ VOICE │ K - Hang-up string ...... ~~+++~~ATH^M │ L - Dial cancel string .. ^M │ M - Dial time ........... 45 Q - Auto bps detect ..... No │ N - Delay before redial . 2 R - Modem has DCD line .. Yes │ O - Number of tries ..... M S - Status line shows ... DTE speed │ P - DTR drop time (0=no). 1 T - Multi-line untag .... No └─────────────────────────────────┘ And that is all the settings that matter (methinks). -- <:-)Mike(-:> This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blocked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE with every account. http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net<v+&j)b bPgbˬXe aŬ:,&޺{.n+{*.mx,ib-Aj)fjb?[v+