From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jun 14 16:52:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA03877 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.COM [165.90.143.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA03872 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb (cedb.DPCSYS.COM [165.90.143.3]) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.6.10/DPC-1.0) with SMTP id QAA04673; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:47:54 -0700 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:47:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow X-Sender: dan@cedb To: Allen Hyer cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199606142310.SAA27700@inetsrv.wtrt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Allen Hyer wrote: > fancy, not to connect to PPP or anything, just straight ascii. I need it > to look for prompts and answer them, and then log off. Sounds like a job for UUCP. If you can't accomplish everything you need to do with a UUCP chat script you could sertainly use it as the basis for a custom hack. > Just looking > around I thought that chat might be the answer. I have tried it with no > luck. It looks like it is using standard out/in instead of the modem You have to take care of the dialing etc.., then you can fork and exec chat with stdin/stdout already setup. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems Dana Point, California