From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 22:13:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA11885 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:13:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA11879 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:13:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA19517; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:03:39 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199611230603.XAA19517@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: Ridiculously long dial string To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:03:38 -0700 (MST) Cc: bdqjl43@server4.bell-atl.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Annelise Anderson" at Nov 22, 96 09:00:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Annelise Anderson said: > On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Vlad Markov wrote: > > > I can connect to the network at work via user ppp. This is a toll call, so I > > got a Corporate Telephone credit card. To use it I must: > > 1. Enter 800xxxxxxx to access some phone network > > 2. wait for the dial tone > > 3. Enter 0XXXXXXXXXXX to get to the number I really want > > 4. Wait a little bit > > 5. Enter the credit card number and pin. > > > > I can't figure out how to do this. My first attempt was to put it in the dial > > string but the number was too long and the timing became incorrect. > > > > I read about "chat", if that is my solution, I don't understand how to > > implement it. > > Perhaps the modem will not accept a string as long as the one you need. > I had this problem with a modem in a portable, dialing from either OS/2 > (a REXX script) or Windows 3.1 (trumpet). I had to divide the number > into two or three pieces and assign them variable names, then tell it > to dial each of the pieces. This did work, but of course the scripts are > in different languages from the one you need to use. "Typically", the AT command set supports a 40 character command line. Brain damaged that it isn't allowed to be longer but I imagine this is an artifact from earliest implementations... --don