Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 07:40:18 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org, ache@freebsd.org Subject: Re: startslip isn't just broken - it's EVIL! Message-ID: <199510241440.HAA23772@aslan.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Oct 1995 05:57:59 PDT." <11667.814539479@time.cdrom.com>
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>> > >> > > 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. > > Jordan Sounds like the same problem I was having getting expect to work. I really wish it would since you write *one*, really intelligent expect script that could login to almost any terminal server and fire up slip. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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