[P1] Apple modem on hold?

[Brian Olesky]

Great answer! I actually found the "Apple modem on hold" app in Process
Viewer, a place I'd never been before  (I'm in 10.2.8). And when I highlight
that app, I found I could pull down the Process menu from the menubar and
click on something called "quit process."

Hopefully, next time my modem gets stuck, this will be the answer. Now, I
actually find myself hoping to see a problem again, just to confirm that
this is the answer.

P.S. In Process Viewer I was surprised to find that even though I'm not
currently sending or receiving a fax (something I only do maybe once a week
or so) the various fax-related things I found in Process Viewer are
supposedly using nearly 10% of my memory!

Anyway, thanks Richard, for the excellent suggestions.

Brian


On 4/6/04 1:02 PM, "Richard McKay" <richard.mckay1 at virgin.net> wrote:

> Am 6/4/04 4:27 pm schrieb "Brian Olesky" unter <brian4 at sbcglobal.net>:
> 
>> Occasionally, my fax software gets hung up because it reports that the modem
>> is busy. But since I have a DSL Internet connection and it isn't on the same
>> line as the modem, I have no idea why this is happening. Then, this morning,
>> a new clue: in the past, I've had to reboot to clear the modem, this time,
>> when I tried to reboot it failed and I got a message saying I had to quit an
>> application called "Apple modem on hold." I couldn't find any such
>> application. But if I could, that would seem to be a way to end my faxing
>> problem. Anybody got any idea what's going on here?
> 
> OS 9 or X?
> 
> If 10.3, can you see the process in Activity Monitor? (in
> Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app) otherwise I think this was
> called Process Viewer in !0.2 and earlier...
> 
> If you start your Fax app while this monitor is running you should be able
> to see the application and associated processes from here, then wait for the
> bug to appear and before rebooting have a comparison look to see if the
> process is listed and what the PID (process ID) is, as once you know this
> you can force quit it using terminal or the Activity Monitor app itself
> (either by highlighting the process and then pressing stop button in menu
> bar or by means of the process menu allowing a more detailed look at the
> item in question. l processes, my processes, all processes hierarchically,

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>