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From: Jay Kuri <jay@interaccess.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bsd, ppp, chat, a lamers question
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 13:00:14 -0500
Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider
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> Now the problem is : it seems i cannot use the chat correctly since my
> provider is actually a BBS and one must pass a lot of ansi screens and
> other shit* stuff before the ppp interface starts. with minicom/pppd
> in linux it was quite easy. can the ppp script in bsd be configured
> like this? do I miss the obvious?
This is actually pretty easy to do. The trick is figuring out how
chat
scripts work. Basically, if you have this chat script:
"TIMEOUT 5 ogin:-\\r-ogin: username word: password"
It sets the timeout to 5 seconds. waits for the string "ogin:" if it
doesn't recieve it in 5 seconds, sends a carriage return "\\r", and
waits again for "ogin:" if it gets it, it sends the string "username".
It then waits (again, up to 5 seconds) for "word:" when it recieves it,
it sends the string "password". Basically its "TIMEOUT # expect send
expect send expect send ...".
You can get it to navigate through the BBS system's menus by using the
expect - send sequences.
For a complete description of how chat scripts work, look at man chat.
Hope this helps, let me know how it goes,
Jay K.
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