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RE: [ECS] FTP files from ECS Ingo Pakleppa Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:29:12 -0800

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This error would indicate that your modem is still in use and ECS can't get
it. What Mark was suggesting is that if you used a DOS FTP (rather than a
GUI based one), and if it used the modem directly, the command shell (i.e.,
DOS) would simply grab COM4 and never release it until you actually close
the command window. This behavior is built into 95 because DOS doesn't have
good support for COM ports, so it was impossible to tell when a DOS program
was done with the port.

To me, it sounds as if the problem is different, though: when you try to
reset phone-interface-c, does the connection to the ISP still exist? If the
FTP application hasn't hung up that connection after it's done, it's the 95
Dial-up-Networking that still needs the modem and won't let ECS have it.

Bottom line: wait with resetting the modem until the connection to your ISP
has disconnected.

Ingo

At 09:59 PM 10/29/98 -0500, Kevin Keast wrote:
>Mark,
>
>I am not quite sure I understand.  W95 has the port(to dial up) and the
>dial-up will not release control when I set phone-interface-c to reset (I
>think that is what is happening: Is the error that is occuring from W95
>telling ECS that it cannot have the port?).  How does the DOS session figure
>in?
>
>Kevin
>
>>
>> Kevin, If you access the port under a DOS session, you need to exit
>> that session in order to access the port
>>
>> Kevin Keast wrote:
>> >
>> > I have a problem that I hope there is a simple answer to.
>> >
>> > I have a basic modem and I have edited the pnc file that has
>> the AT commands
>> > that my modem will not support (most of them).  For right now the only
>> > command I need is ATZ (reset) to have ECS hang up the phone.  The
>> > phone-interface-c item appears to work.
>> >
>> > 1.  I run a ftp command file-The computer dials up (using my ISP dial up
>> > adapter)
>> > 2.  The ftp session works fine
>> > 3.  I set phone-interface-c to reset and I get the following W95 error:
>> >      open err on COM4 (W95 err#5 Access denied)
>> >
>>
>
>
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