A little bit OT: an interesting POP

It's a little bit ON-topic because I would never have discovered this if I wasn't playing with my C64's modem. Btw, for 6551 ACIA hackers, I seem to be having some trouble detecting carrier with my SwiftLink. I know that in the cartridge it is always tied on with pull-ups so that the 6551's receiver stays on, and so Dr Evil Labs/CMD directed DCD to come over DSR instead (this is internal to the cartridge). But all I get is the DCD "phantom" always-on bit when I check the register, even if I get a successful connect -- I never see the DCR line come up. Are there DB-25 to DE-9 cables that just don't connect DCD? While I was testing this out, I dialed the local AOL access number just to get something with a carrier so that I could watch the 6551 status register when it connected. Besides the DCD/DSR chachacha above, I got an interesting prompt (X'ed out the naughty bits) Level 3 Comm nasXX.XXXX UQKT2 Username:/login:/Login: Not your typical POP. I know who Level 3 is, and I do have an AOL login. It's interesting, however -- I was just expecting 8-bit "garbage" and not an actual prompt. I disconnected immediately since I wasn't interested in raising anyone's blood pressure at Level 3's security centre. What kind of protocol might this use (besides AOL's internal one, of course)? -- --------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- Excellent guess, Kreskin. Wrong, but excellent. -- Space Quest 6 -----------