From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 20:22:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA24028 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 20:22:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA24023 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 20:22:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [204.117.217.147]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA06055; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 22:22:29 -0600 (CST) Received: (from daniel@localhost) by crocodile.vale.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) id WAA19376; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 22:22:28 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 22:22:28 -0600 (CST) From: Dan Riley To: Virgil Champlin cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp script \ character In-Reply-To: <9703200253.AA08047@virgil.pa.dec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Regards all, I found several similiar threads in the archives. As it turns out in my case, 4 "\\\\" characters are needed to escape the "\q" correctly, although some have found it to work with only 2 "\\"'s. Thanks to all for the very timely replies and especially to Virgil for this invaluable information on the BitSurfr. Dan Riley On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Virgil Champlin wrote: > >> set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" > >> AT&F&C1&D2\Q3%A2=3&M@B0=2 OK \\dATD\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" > > Have you tried a double the "\"? To quote a "\" you usually type "\\" > so it should look like "\\Q3". Also, it may be unecessary since, > according to these parameters, it looks like you want AImux on 2 B > channels. This can be setup by changing your "&f" to "&f2". This > would reduce your modem setup to "AT&F2&C1&D2". The rest of your > original is implied by the "&F2". -virgil > >