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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Does pdial have a maximum length?
Date: 20 Feb 2001 14:38:30 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <3A91EF77.D5998E55@littlegreenapples.com>,
Meng Kuan <mengkuan@littlegreenapples.com> wrote:
: I am trying to use ckermit to do alphanumeric paging. Where I am from,
: the paging operators do not have a TAP/IXO service so I had to do a
: manual conversion of the alphanumeric characters to dial-sequences. For
: instance, the message
:
: "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
:
: is converted into
:
: "2122233132334142435152536162637172737481828391929394".
:
: If I use a shorter message (e.g. "abcdef") there is no problem. However,
: if I have a message longer than 17 characters, pdial always truncates it
: when it does the actual dialling.
: A sample of a failed dialing attempt is included below. Note that the
: "Dial string" shown below was not truncated but the pdial command was.
: The script that I use is a modified version of alphapage script found
: here:
:
: ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/scripts/ckermit/alphapage
:
: Some other information about my setup:
:
: ckermit version: 7.0.196, 1 Jan 2000, for Linux
: server: debian potato on i386 platform
:
: I have gone over the online documetation and FAQs but to no avail. If
: anyone has any clues for the following questions I will be most
: grateful. Is there a maximum length to the number of digits pdial can
: dial? If so, how can I increase it? Or are there some other settings
: which I missed?
:
Kermit does not truncate the dial string.
: Trying:
: T9,93217086,,###,2122233132334142435152536162637172737481828391929394**;...
:
This message is printed by the dial module. It shows the telephone
number that was passed to it. This is the number it dials.
: ...
: ATX3
: OK
: ATS2=43S7=105
: OK
: Dialing: 11:57:08...
: ATDT9,93217086,,###,2122233132334142435152536162637172737
:
Now Kermit is sending commands to the modem. What you see when DIAL
DISPLAY is ON are the echoes from the modem. The modem evidently has
a short command buffer, and drops the characters that don't fit.
The solution is to break the long number into multiple PDIALs.
- Frank