From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 00:42:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA09722 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:42:20 -0800 Received: from onyx.southwind.net (root@onyx.southwind.net [204.95.83.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA09702 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:42:15 -0800 Received: (from Ucomplet@localhost) by onyx.southwind.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id CAA01908; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 02:25:09 -0600 Received: from complete.org (complete.org [127.0.0.1]) by complete.org (8.7.2/8.7.2) with SMTP id BAA00581; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 01:59:16 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199512040759.BAA00581@complete.org> X-Authentication-Warning: complete.org: Host complete.org [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Nate Williams cc: Michael Jamet , wlclarke@cats.ucsc.edu, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USR modem setup [ How to setup auto answer ] In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Dec 1995 13:59:36 MST." <199512032059.NAA01050@rocky.sri.MT.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 01:59:14 -0600 From: John Goerzen Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > BZZT. Thanks for playing, but you're wrong. means > nothing to *any* OS unless the OS allows does something special with > that sequence of keys. In FreeBSD, it used to mean absolutely nothing What I've consistently heard is that it is a function of the PC BIOS that must be trapped in order to disable it or make it do something else. > When you press in FreeBSD you are basically doing the > same thing as a 'shutdown -h now'. Linux developers weren't that smart :-) [ remainder of msg deleted] -- John Goerzen, programmer and owner | MICRO$oft only exists because some Communications Centre & Complete BBS | people are too dumb to get something E-mail jgoerzen@complete.org | better, such as FreeBSD.