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- SendSerial 1.04 is FREEWARE
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- Copyright © Michael Dreher
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- Preface
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- SendSerial is a little program to send a command to the modem and wait
- for the result ("OK", "BUSY", "ERROR", ...). I wrote it to initialize
- my modem in a batch file and to assure that it is ready. There are
- several options, which allow you to use it with other, than the
- built-in serial port.
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- Usage : SendSerial options
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- The options are :
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- ? : show this little help-page
- -d Devicename : name of the device ("serial.device")
- -u Unitnumber : unitnumber of the device (0)
- -b Baudrate : baudrate to use (set by Prefs/Serial)
- -c Command : command to send to modem ("ATZ")
- -r Modemresponse : expected response of the modem ("OK")
- -p PreWaitTime : time to wait after opening the device (2 seconds)
- -t MaxDelayTime : maximum time to wait for a response of the modem (10 seconds)
- NOECHO : the modem is set to ATE0 and doesn't echo commands
- OUTPUT : show the output of the modem
- LOCK : use LockDevUnit instead of AttemptDevUnit of OwnDevUnit Library
- NOODU : disable OwnDevUnit.library support
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-
- All omitted options will get the defaults in parentheses. Some of them
- are set by Prefs/Serial. On success the returncode will be set to
- zero. If the modemresponse doesn't match the expected string the
- returncode will be 5 (WARN), on other errors it will be 10 (ERROR).
-
- Remember that many modems drop the line or even reset themselve when
- the serial.device gets closed. To avoid this, you have to tell the
- modem to ignore the DTR signal (for USR modems this is AT&D0).
-
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- OwnDevUnit support
- ------------------
- SendSerial attempts to open the OwnDevUnit.library version 1, but it
- will also work without the OwnDevUnit.library. Normally SendSerial
- uses AttemptDevUnit to obtain a lock to the device, but you can use
- the switch 'LOCK' to use LockDevUnit. Without 'LOCK' SendSerial will
- fail after about 5 seconds when it doesn't get the device. When you
- specify 'LOCK' at the commandline, it will wait until it gets the
- device. You can't use CTRL-C to break it when it waits for the lock !
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- The 'OUTPUT' option
- -------------------
- The 'OUTPUT' option can be used to call SendSerial by other programs
- and to check the result of the modem command. Be careful : when the
- returncode is 10 or above, there was a serios error and the message
- you get is the errormessage of SendSerial and not the message of the
- modem !
-
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- Examples
- --------
- 1> sendserial
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- Send "ATZ" to the modem, using the serial.device, unit 0 with the
- default baudrate, which can be adjusted with Prefs/Serial. Wait 2
- seconds (PreWaitTime) after opening the device to assure the modem is
- ready to receive the command. If the modem doesn't answer "OK" within
- 10 seconds, the returncode will be 5. On other errors (device can't be
- opened, ...) the returncode will be 10 and an errormessage will be
- displayed.
-
-
- 1> sendserial -d ibmser.device -u 2 -b 19200 -c ATDT1-800-TRAPDOOR -r CONNECT -p 5 -t 60 OUTPUT
- ATDT1-800-TRAPDOOR
- NO CARRIER
-
- Send "ATDT1-800-TRAPDOOR" to the modem, using the ibmser.device, unit
- 2 and baudrate 19200. Wait 5 seconds after opening the device. If the
- modem doesn't answer "CONNECT" within 60 seconds, the returncode will
- be 5. Sendserial does not compare more characters than the length of
- the string "CONNECT", that means that any message which starts with
- "CONNECT" will result in a returncode of zero. The messages of the
- modem will be echoed.
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- Comments on the program
- -----------------------
- SendSerial requires AmigaOS >= 2.04 (V37). It supports the
- OwnDevUnit.library, opens the named device in shared-mode and sets
- the SERF_RAD_BOOGIE flag. SendSerial can not be run from Workbench !
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- Copyright
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- This program is Freeware, you can copy and use it for free.
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- Programmer
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- Michael Dreher
- Wielandstr. 12
- 71229 Leonberg
- Germany
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- Fido Netmail : 2:246/1216.1 Intuition-Base ++49-7152-45768
- UseNet: 641287@rz.fht-esslingen.de or michael@galaga.stgt.sub.org
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