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Message-ID: <3A91EF77.D5998E55@littlegreenapples.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:15:51 +0800
From: Meng Kuan <mengkuan@littlegreenapples.com>
Subject: Does pdial have a maximum length?
Organization: StarHub Internet Pte Ltd
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Hi,
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?
Thanks,
Meng Kuan
----------------sample of alphanumeric dial attempt--------------
Number: "93217086"
Message: "2122233132334142435152536162637172737481828391929394"
Device: "/dev/ttyS0"
Speed: "2400"
Modem: "generic-high-speed"
Redials: "20"
Pause: "0"
Poundsign: "0"
WARNING: This modem is not well-suited for paging.
Busy signals are not detected and failure is not reported.
Automatic redialing disabled.
Dial string:
"9,93217086,,###,2122233132334142435152536162637172737481828391929394**"
Trying:
T9,93217086,,###,2122233132334142435152536162637172737481828391929394**;...
Device: /dev/ttyS0, modem: generic-high-speed, speed: 2400
Dial timeout: 115 seconds
To cancel: type your interrupt character (normally Ctrl-C).
Hangup OK
Initializing: 11:57:06...
ATQ0
ATQ0
OK
AT&F1S11=65
OK
ATM1L2
OK
ATX3
OK
ATS2=43S7=105
OK
Dialing: 11:57:08...
ATDT9,93217086,,###,2122233132334142435152536162637172737
DIAL Failure: 11:57:19: Interrupted.
Dial status: "9"
^C...
Closing /dev/ttyS0...OK
-----------------end of attempt--------------------------