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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tip, cu are both buggy (2.1.0-R) Date: 2 Jun 1996 21:14:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4ot07c$sv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ohtem$g71@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E E.J.Randall@x400.icl.co.uk (Ed Randall) wrote: > "cu" configuration initially seemed a bit more complex than "tip", > but turned to be a simple matter of "too many files" syndrome. The simplest "cu" configuration is 0, btw. You can (as a member of group "dialer") always do cu -s 38400 -l /dev/cuaa0 to speak directly to the modem. > "cu" is sending a secret, unsolicited "AT" before the first command > in the chat script. SO I was sending "ATATZ" - and that put it in the > "on line" state. The example script is clearly wrong, it should start > off > chat "" Z\r\d\c OK > because the initial AT has already been done for free. I cannot reproduce this. Here's the relevant part of my /etc/uucp/dial, and be assured, UUCP is my main link for mail and news, so i'm pretty certain it works: # If we get "BUSY" or "NO CARRIER" during the dial chat script we # abort the dial immediately. chat-fail BUSY chat-fail ERROR chat-fail NO\sDIALTONE chat-fail NO\sCARRIER chat-fail nsufficient\snode\sres # This is a typical Hayes modem definition. dialer hayes chat "" ATZ\d\r OK ATDT\T\r\c CONNECT > (5) Point me to the document that tells me how to submit the changes to the > "cu" source code myself ? send-pr(1) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)