arup@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (Arup Mukherjee) (10/21/87)
This posting is for a friend who does not have net access. He is writing a BBS program in quick basic and needs to monitor DTR on the com port in order to determine when a caller hangs up on his network. He is accustomed to getting "NO CARRIER" messages from the modem to tell him when this happens, but of course this does not work now. There is a program around called watchdog which monitors DTR and reboots the machine if it is lost, but this won't work either because the machine will be running 2 nodes under DESQview. Is anyone out there familiar enough with qbasic to write down a few lines of code that would return something to tell the program that DTR has been lost when applicable? Many thanks..... Arup Mukherjee [arup@grasp.cis.upenn.edu]