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   Message 437 of 935   
   Tony Langdon to mark lewis   
   Re: BBS software.   
   08 Mar 18 15:42:00   
   
   -=> 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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