New option -w|--waittime as requested by Markus Widauer

[mdsms.git] / mdsms.1.in

diff --git a/mdsms.1.in b/mdsms.1.in
index ded0992..a192278 100644 (file)
--- a/mdsms.1.in
+++ b/mdsms.1.in
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ options:
 .RB [ "-r <sec>" ]
 .RB [ "-t <msec>" ]
 .RB [ "-T <msec>" ]
+.RB [ "-w <sec>" ]
 .RB [ "\-vhV" ]
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -248,6 +249,16 @@ approach.
 The default value is
 .BR DEF_CMDTIME ms.
 .TP
+.BR -w | --waittime\  < sec >
+This delay is maximum time allowed silently waiting for incoming data.
+After approx 30 minutes of waiting for Nokia 9110 data it will turn off
+its FaxModem feature disabling any further reading of messages.
+After such idle time \fBmdsms\fP will also reinitialize the modem to
+handle the case where the modem was silently powercycled in the meanwhile
+loosing its initial settings done by \fBmdsms\fP during its startup.
+The default value is
+.BR DEF_WAITTIME s.
+.TP
 .BR -f | --file
 When parameter <\fBmsg text\fP> has been specified, by using this option
 \fBmdsms\fP will read the file with the <\fBmsg text\fP> filename instead