From: doogie@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeff House) Subject: Re: /dev/ttys? not responding Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:32:55 GMT
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