--- In drealmbbs@yahoogroups.com, Kent Hansen <hansenkent@y...> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply Peter.
>
> How ever i have fixed the problem apparently it
> happens if not all the directoryes are as they should
> be as described in the setup file and its moste likely
> because you end up passeing Empty variables witch any
> c is not happy about.
> How ever as soon as i found my littel type o fixed it
> the assertion error went away. now im just trying to
> find out how i get it to do a 'At' to pick up the
> phone onece that is ringing.
> But thats a different story
>

Tell the modem to autoanswer and ensure the getty you're running on
that serial port understands DCD or DSR and get the modem to assert
one of those when it's got carrier. The first bit is "ATS0=1" but I
forget the second bit (varies with modem). The BBS package does no
modem handling.