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To: Terry Dwyer 61 8 9491 5161 <tdwyer@io.telstra.com.au>
cc: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>, questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: iijppp and chat scripts 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:25:29 +0800."
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> 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#
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Carey Nairn
> > 
> > 
> 
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