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Message-ID: <1079574175.3470.181.camel@flybynight> From: lscharf at aoe.vt.edu (Luke Scharf) Subject: Ancient Trivia: +++ath0 This is a bit of ancient trivia that came up over lunch today. I thought maybe y'all could offer some insight. As the old BBS'ers and even older folks know, the string "+++ath0" will disconnect a modem. Once upon a time, I had this string in my e-mail signature. Some folks using Windows and a dialup line couldn't respond to my e-mail, even though the e-mail was being sent via PPP and all that good stuff. Everyone could receive the mail, though, so I'm assuming that the ISP was was running a decent implementation of PPP -- although since I haven't used modems in years, I can't rule out that the ISP was using some sort of non-Hayes modem. Does anyone know what versions of windows had this particular bug in the PPP implementation? Were any other systems affected? Thanks, -Luke P.S. Oh, yeah, just for laughs: +++ath0 -- Luke Scharf, Systems Administrator Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
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