From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 24 20:42:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA24420 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 20:42:08 -0700 Received: from nike.efn.org (garcia.efn.org [198.68.17.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA24411 ; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 20:41:52 -0700 Received: (from gurney_j@localhost) by nike.efn.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA06732; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 20:41:56 -0700 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 20:41:55 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Serge A. Babkin" , msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: startslip isn't just broken - it's EVIL! In-Reply-To: <11667.814539479@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > > Guys! Use slattach and chat, and save yourselves the stress 8) > > > > > > I've never managed to get that combo to work! Chat just dies > > > immediately.. :-( > > > > I got it working under 2.0. There were some strange problems but in > > common it worked. I remember that chat does not understand the dial-up > > string in the command line, it needs a file with it. > > No, that's not the problem here - I have my chat script in a file and > that very same chat script works just fine with chat if I *don't run > it from slattach*. When run from slattach, chat blows up when it > first tries to talk to the port. I don't know what's wrong, but > slattach clearly isn't setting up things correctly before invoking the > external script. I tried for quite a few days to get this to work > and finally gave up in disgust. did you put in a sleep before calling the chat script? It looks like you have to sleep 2 before you call the chat script to let the line settle down after slattach dropped and raised dtr on the modem... this might help... TTYL.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)