How in the world can you get a dial tone from your phone if you are using the
line? The only way that I can think of is if the connection at the other end
was forwarding your call.
If that happens again, try,
A. Waiting to see what happens, or,
B. Hitting <ALT H> instead of the panic button.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona
Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
. > I have a very disconcerting experience to report.
. > About 45 minutes ago I was online with Arachne. My online
. > activities alternated among downloading my email, surfing
. > the web, and composing email messages. As I was reviewing
. > a recently composed email message in my outbox, I heard a
. > dial tone from my modem. I knew instantly that this should
. > not have happened because I was not accessing any modem
. > program or function. In the lower right hand corner of my
. > Arachne I could see in green uppercase letters TCP/IP. This
. > indicated to me that I was still online even though I was
. > hearing a dial tone from my modem. Then my modem started to
. > dial, even though my Arachne indicated that I was still
. > online. Even if I had temporarily lost the connection for
. > some reason there is no program running on my computer that
. > would automatically cause the modem to redial. I don't know
. > what number my modem was dialing. No terminal screen
. > appeared. I became afraid that my modem might connect with
. > the Evil Empire and that control of my computer would suddenly
. > be passed over Darth Vader, or even to somebody worse, like
. > Bill Gates. I hit the panic button. That is the big
. > pushbutton on the front of my computer that says "POWER".
. > Pushed it in and it was OFF. Then I checked my phone and found
. > that I had a normal dialtone as expected. After re-booting I
. > ran Norton Disk Doctor. Everything OK. Then I ran F-PROT to
. > scan my memory and my entire hard drive. No viruses. I have
. > never had a problem like this before. I have an all DOS system
. > and my modem has always been very well-behaved. What happened?
. > Has anyone else on this list ever experienced a similar
. > problem? Any recommendations as to what I should do if this
. > should ever happen again?
. > Help!
