On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:51:23PM -0400, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
... 
> Yeah, but modems are NOT set to auto-answer by default...

Managing to set register S0 to something >0 eg ATS0=6 would get the
modem to answer after 6 rings.. (get to set that with eg
tip modem
and eg
modem:dv=/dev/tty00:br#115200:pa=none:dc:hf:
in /etc/remote - edit to taste.. ATS0? displays contents of S-register 0)

Cheers,

Patrick