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- From: Krzysztof@netxsys.guild.org (Krzysztof Adamski)
- Subject: Re: modem results codes messing up login
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- References: <96@jassys.UUCP>
- Message-ID: <Krzysztof.06so@netxsys.guild.org>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 12:56:26 EDT
- Organization: NetX Systems Inc.
- Lines: 31
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- From article <96@jassys.UUCP>, by tony@jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden):
- > Ok I know this should be an easy one, and as long as I've been a SA I
- > should know the answer to this one. So be gentle, I'm kinda
- > embarrassed to ask this ;-)
- >
- > I've seen this on a recently on a couple of systems, a rs/6000 and a
- > motorola unix box.
- >
- > The tty ports are configured as dial in/out ports with a modem
- > attached. The dialer program looks for result codes so the modem is
- > configured to echo the results. But when the modem answers a call the
- > results codes (CONNECT xxx ... ...) are echoed to the login program.
- >
- > How do I control this? Do I set the dialer script to not use the
- > results codes (\e) or is there a better way?
- >
- > Oddly this is something that the PC versions of unix handle better
- > than the workstations.
- >
- > TIA
- >
- >
- > --
- > Tony Holden live on the edge,
- > tony@jassys Bank in Texas
- > jassys!tony@rwsys.lonestar.org
-
- Make the modem return numeric return codes, this way Unix will not see upper
- case.
-
- Krzysztof
-