Script question

[Rick Forrister]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:50:58 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:

> I would look at Expect, which is designed to do just what you want.
> Joel

expect would be one good choice.  Python with the popen2.popen2 module is another; it can grab sysin & sysout and "talk" to another program.

rickf

> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:12:24PM +0200, Oliver Ob 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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