On Jan 16,  3:47am, Greg A. Woods wrote:
} [ On Saturday, September 30, 2000 at 17:05:25 (+0200), Manuel Bouyer wrote: ]
} >
} > Yes, I've seen it with a USR sportster 56k. The modem asserts CD some time
} > after it prints the "CONNECT" string, so if the program tries to read from
} > the modem rigth after it gets CONNECT, it gets EOF because CD isn't asserted.

     The problem is with writeing, not reading.

} The modem should NEVER be printing anything if it's 'getty' that's
} managing it.  Turn off all that stuff!!!!

     Smart gettys need to see the connect string to determine what type
of call it is (i.e. DATA/FAX/VOICE) as well as get caller-id
information.  Welcome to modern modems and programs designed to handle
them.

}-- End of excerpt from Greg A. Woods