Problems with modems and emacs

[Tom Alexander]

>From article <4098 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, by xev at hstbme.mit.edu (Xev Gittler):
> I'm having a bit of a problem with my 4.3 system and my modems, and I
> was hoping someone knew a fix. 
> 
> We get people who dial into our system, play around a while, get into
> emacs, and just hang up without logging off. The modem hangs up, and
> their shell is killed, but emacs is still hanging around, and dtr
> doesn't come back up on the modems. I'm not sure if this is a problem
> exclusively in emacs, but that is the only place that I have noticed
> it. Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 					Xev Gittler
> 					xev at hstbme.mit.edu, or
> 					xev at athena.mit.edu


We have experienced similar symptoms with one of our systems. Although our
lines are connected directly we also suffer from the problem of dtr not coming
up again rendering the line dead until physically reset or the the system is
rebooted. We did not associate the problem with people using non-standard
logout procedures but this could well be the case.