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To: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org, ache@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: startslip isn't just broken - it's EVIL! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Oct 1995 09:53:28 +0500."
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 05:57:59 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > 
> > > Guys!  Use slattach and chat, and save yourselves the stress 8)
> > 
> > I've never managed to get that combo to work!  Chat just dies
> > immediately.. :-(
> 
> I got it working under 2.0. There were some strange problems but in
> common it worked. I remember that chat does not understand the dial-up
> string in the command line, it needs a file with it.

No, that's not the problem here - I have my chat script in a file and
that very same chat script works just fine with chat if I *don't run
it from slattach*.  When run from slattach, chat blows up when it
first tries to talk to the port.  I don't know what's wrong, but
slattach clearly isn't setting up things correctly before invoking the
external script.  I tried for quite a few days to get this to work
and finally gave up in disgust.

						Jordan