On Thu Jan-12-2017 14:13, mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    ml>  On 2017 Jan 12 06:59:08, you wrote to Nick Andre:   
      
    NA>> Not necessarily. A system crash, or more specifically a DOS program   
    NA>> that just decides to give-up... does not automatically drop the   
    NA>> carrier signal on a COM port unless its told to do so or a hard-reset   
    NA>> is done.   
      
    RN> It just seems to me that if the program that was using the modem   
    RN> crashed, there would no reason for the modem to continue the carrier.   
      
    ml> if the modem is internal, it may very well shut down... an external   
    ml> one, on the other hand, may not... it depends on how it is   
    ml> configured with the serial control lines and what happens to them   
    ml> when the software or system goes down... this is one of the reasons   
    ml> why i always use external modems and not internal ones... externals   
    ml> i can just turn off and rest but internals have to have the machine   
    ml> rebooted and maybe even hard rebooted or powered off instead of   
    ml> just a soft boot...   
      
   My personal choice in the beginning was an internal modem.  I don't recall any   
   problems with them to speak of, but eventually I did get a USR v.everything   
   external modem and liked it just as much.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
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