> > What you can do is to see if you can communicate with this
> > modem in MSDOS, perhaps using one of those free communications
> > programs. Make sure its generic. Boot into DOS...not a
> > DOS window, but actually stop the booting process with F8
> > and select "command prompt only". then fire up your program.
> > If you can dial out and otherwise communicate with the modem,
> > you should be okay for Linux.
> >
> Could also do an "echo atdt <phone number> >com2<enter>"
> at a dos prompt (again, booting to dos mode or boot as
> instructed above) and that SHOULD allow you to test w/o
> having to have a dos-based terminal program. :-)
If I type CTTY COM2:, will I lock up my system?
It would be nice if I could redirect the keyboard's output to COM2: and
COM2:'s output to the screen.
