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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Troy Curtiss <troyc@sandy.merix.com>
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Subject: Re: Two-way pipe possible without C/perl?
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On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Troy Curtiss wrote:

> Hi,
>   I am looking for a very quick and dirty way to have my FreeBSD
> box page me when certain systems go down at work.  The easiest way
> I can think of is to create a 2-way pipe between a chat command and
> the cu command.  Something like:
> 
> chat " '' ATZ OK ATDT1800PAGER# CONNECT 'PIN12345' Sent ATH" <->
>   cu -l /dev/cuaa0 -s 300

stty -f /dev/cuaa0 300
 chat " '' ATZ OK ATDT1800PAGER# CONNECT 'PIN12345' Sent ATH" \
    < /dev/cuaa0 > /dev/cuaa0


cheers,

Danny