This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Grumpy modem hack..
Article: 7391 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: ben@myhost.subdomain.domain (Ben Peoples) Subject: Re: Grumpy modem hack.. Message-ID: D43s06.tA@iglou.com Sender: news@iglou.com (USENET News Administrator) Organization: Algernon Software Systems, Inc. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 17:16:54 GMT Approved: Yup. Lines: 19 Status: RO
Josh Wilmes (wilmesj@vccnw08.its.rpi.edu) wrote: : Um, none of them will.. Try hooking two phones together some time.. Sheesh. Yes they do, mine works just fine. connect them together, type "ata" on one, and "atd" on the other. BTW, it may help if you disable dial tone detection. ObHack: This post. Just kidding; ObRealHack: Writing a number of scripts that call up this internet provider, login, and get a term connection going. It then downloads news/mail and then opens a ppp connection with my notebook, which after charging all night has come out of suspend mode, and transfers the news over. Pretty lame, but it works, and lets me read my news and mail when class gets boring. Now, I just need to get it working for this slip connection... Ben
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