>> To my knowlege, modems don't issue anything upon power-up, so you would
>> HAVE to have a hardware solution to "watch" for the power-up and then send
>
>Power-up of a modem is supposed to be indicated by the DSR (Data Set Ready)
>line of the RS232 port going active. Some cheesy implementations have used
>this line for hardware handshaking, but that shouldn't be an issue here.

Heh, a slight memory lapse there on my part...my background is from
Macintosh, which have a slightly screwy RS422 setup for the serial ports.

Thank everyone for straightening me out there.

Mike
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