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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:37:44 +1000 (EST)
From: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
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To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: iijppp and chat scripts 
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On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Brian Somers wrote:

> > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Carey Nairn wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think you have to wait for the last char in the prompt string to 
> > arrive before you can do a match.  It may be worthwhile to try matching
> > on the string "name" in the termserver's prompt assuming what you've 
> > shown below is the actual prompt you see.
> 
> Or you could do a few expect/sends for different bits of the same 
> prompt.  For example, if you've got
> 
> login on abcde: 
> or
> login on defgh: 
> 
> (with spaces at the end of each), you could have a chat that does
> 
>  set login "login\son\s \"\" \\s MyLogin"
> 
> > > hi guys,
> > > 
> > > I'm looking for a chat guru...
> > > 
> > > When I dial in to my provider, I will get a different prompt depending on
> > > which terminal server I connect to.  Is there a way in the login script to
> > > test for on of multiple different prompts?
> > > 
> > > e.g.  
> > > 
> > > login to ts1, prompt is ts1name>
> > > login to ts2, prompt is ts2name#
> > > 

Both pmrompts are completely unique so Terry's suggestion won't work
unfortunately.  What I need is to try Brian's idea and put in a couple of
different expect values and hope the terminal server doesn't hangup
waiting for the timeouts.

thanks guys,
Carey Nairn