DOS answering machine ???

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/15/2006 at 8:56 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:

>That was my way to do dialup for a while here until it got weird after a 
>storm.  Now no matter what input you give it on the serial port side it
>comes 
>back saying "boot>".  My guess on this is that the writable storage in it
>got 
>trashed somehow,  but other than that I don't know.  Suggestions as to how
>I 
>might deal with this welcomed,  either on or off list.

Well, you might try running the V.90 upgrade package for the modem (I
assume that you've got a XPVS56E

http://www.maxtech.com/html/fl-modems.html

Dunno if your modem is responsive enough to accept it, but it's a guess.

Cheers,
Chuck