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How can I detect a dial tone on a COM port?

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From

14/01/2001 10:05:45

Ed Rauh
Trumbull, Connecticut, United States

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14/01/2001 10:00:45

Juan Urbina
Cave Creek, Arizona, United States

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Visual FoxPro

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Re: How can I detect a dial tone on a COM port?

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>Thanks in advance,
>I'm dialing a phone number using mscomm32 but I can't know (before) dialing if there is dial tone or not, can somebody help me?

Without having the modem actually pick up the line, there's generally no way to know if there's dial tone.

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