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- From: doogie@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeff House)
- Subject: Re: /dev/ttys? not responding
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.153255.11889@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
- References: <1992Jul22.235626.17486@ncsu.edu> <1992Jul23.103716.29243@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:32:55 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Jul23.103716.29243@klaava.Helsinki.FI> you write:
- >In article <1992Jul22.235626.17486@ncsu.edu> doogie@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeff House) writes:
- >>
- >>I did the following: [ edited ]
- >>
- >>echo "ATDT5551111" > /dev/ttys0
- >>
- >> [ some more editing ] Neither case dialed, and
- >>when I did:
- >>
- >>cat /dev/ttys0
- >>
- >>"ATDT5551111" was echoed. My modem seems not to be accepting commands.
- >
- >This is pretty much what should happen: hayes-compatible modems expect a
- >carriage return ('\r') after the command, and the above just sends the
- >normal unix line-feed instead. As the modem is echoing you, you do have
- >a good connection to it, so things should work after correcting the
- >above to:
- >
- > $ echo -e -n "atdt5551111\015"
- >
- >or similar. Or get kermit, and type the above in directly.
- >
- > Linus
-
-
- Thanks Linus, and all that responded... It's working now!
-
- (Yet another wonderful day has passed with another answered question
- from this group. You are all great!)
-
- -Doogie
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