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Date:      Thu, 04 Jun 1998 23:58:03 -0500
From:      "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
To:        MetcalJM@utrc.utc.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        metcalf@snet.net
Subject:   Re: Initializing a modem
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19980604235803.00924220@midwest.net>
In-Reply-To: <C77AD5DA2AA7D111859D00805FA72468033630@EXPRESS7>

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look at cu...I use cu -s 57600 -l /dev/cuaa0 to check my scripts....



At 02:39 PM 6/5/98 -0400, MetcalJM@utrc.utc.com wrote:

>Hi,

>

>I was wondering if FreeBSD has any utilities or if someone has written a

>very

>simple program to send AT strings to a modem on a sio? serial port.

>Currently I am using ijjppp in term mode to write the strings and that

>works fine.  Unfortunately, I would like to send the AT string to the

>modem

>non-interactively from a script.  I can use 'expect' to get the job done

>with

>ijjppp, but that seems to be a bit of a kludge.  In the past, I have

>tried

>writing directly to the raw device, 

>

>eg. echo "ATZ" > /dev/cuaa0

>

>but that seems to put the modem in a funny state.  Also, since I can't

>see 

>the return message (OK) with this method, I never knew if it really

>worked.

>

>Is there a standard FreeBSD utility to do what I'm looking to do?  If

>not,

>does anyone have any _simple_ C code I can hack to do this?

>

>Many Regards,

>

>JM

>> -------------

>> Jeffrey M. Metcalf

>> United Technologies Research Center

>> metcaljm@utrc.utc.com

>> (860) 610-7576

>> 

>> 

>> 

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