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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!swrinde!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!psgrain!news.teleport.com!felix.teleport.com!nick From: nick@teleport.com (User &) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD & PPP's "chat" program Date: 02 May 1995 14:08:07 GMT Organization: Teleport com., WA. USA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <NICK.95May2070807@felix.teleport.com> References: <3o34a5$qro@news.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-vanc0-30.teleport.com In-reply-to: dean@halcyon.com's message of 1 May 1995 17:04:05 GMT Hi, > I would just assume I was just overlooking something, but the PPP FAQ that > comes with FreeBSD does not discuss using chat. In fact, it goes to > a lot of work to provide scripts to automate dialing with kermit, > but that doesn't seem like a clean way to do it when "chat" exists. I use this shell script. ------ #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/pppd crtscts connect '/usr/bin/chat -v "" ATDTXXX-XXXX CONNECT "" ogin "Your-login-name" assword: "Your-PPP-password"' /dev/cua00 38400 ----- Enjoy! -- Naomi YAMAKAWA / CAMAS, WA USA yama@teleport.com