From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 14 23:54: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6EA14D2B for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:53:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA78544; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199910150653.XAA78544@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: tip In-Reply-To: <38068A5A.BBC152D@ripco.com> from Jeremy McMillan at "Oct 14, 1999 08:58:50 pm" To: aphor@ripco.com Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:53:30 -0700 (PDT) Cc: vladimir-bsd-stable@math.uic.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You know, that one got me too: I had once tried to use tip for numeric > paging, and I couldn't do the dial > pause. I don't have time to try it myself, but if you want to, try this > hack: it substitutes the comma-delimiter with a semicolon-delimiter in the > phones file. A semicolon in a dial string is supposed to return the modem to > command-mode after dialing. That will let the telco connection continue, but > will wait for AT commands to go on-hook or start the handshake. I can't > imagine a use for that in tip. Every time *I* have done that, it has been > for troubleshooting and was convenient to type the AT command manually. > > I wonder why just a linefeed character won't work... A more correct fix would be to add \ escaping to this piece of code so that you could do ``5551212\,\,\,\,5555\,\,\,\,123456''. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message