Script question

[Brad De Vries]

Oliver, you might be able to use the "chat" command. 
It's typically used for a PPPD connection but it talks
to the modem nicely so you might be able to get it to
work outside of PPPD.

Brad.
--- Oliver Ob <ob_ok at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello Lx Mgetty friends!!!
> 
> Now, that I am back, I would like to hear your
> inspiration on this:
> 
> I have been running a BBS.
> 
> What I want to do now is have a script (or perl???)
> dial
> out (means send ATDT xxxxxxxxxxxx) command and then
> wait
> for response.
> 
> In case there is no response or so it should receive
> the
> error (maybe "BUSY" or "NO CARRIER") from modem and
> log it
> to a log file.
> 
> How do I approach this?
> Use Mgetty?
> Or anything else?
> 
> Any friendly pointers appreciated!


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