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To: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
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        Terry Dwyer 61 8 9491 5161 <tdwyer@io.telstra.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: iijppp and chat scripts 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:37:44 +1000."
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:54:35 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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.

This isn't fair - the ISP is cheating :-(

You could also try

  set login "TIMEOUT 3 assword:-MyLogin-assword: MyPassword"

So that you just wait a few seconds and then fire the logon....  The 
only alternative is wild card matching.  Feel free to send patches so 
that you can say

  set login -r ".. MyLogin assword: MyPassword"
or
  set login -r "{ts1name>,ts2name#} MyLogin assword: MyPassword"

where the first bits are regular expressions ;-)

> thanks guys,
> Carey Nairn
> 

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