> A chat script can't work this way, too. Because chat must be able to send
> commands to the modem before carrier is set. But the actual com driver
> will just block because carrier is not set. :-(

Check out the stty and ttyflags manuals. I have "local" set at boot
time and reset it as appropriate on dial out.

My standard slip chat script still works with revision  1.59 of com.c.


Martin