On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:12:16PM -0800, Ben Cottrell wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:08:49 +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Basically you need something to anserw the phone when it rings. A chat
> > script can do this:
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> It's been a while, but if you set "ats1=1" and then "at&w" the modem
> will auto-answer, and I think if you're using all the right modem
> control stuff, open() on the serial port will block until you get
> carrier, so you can just use /etc/ttys?

yes, it's possible. I don't remember the reason it was done this way at the
time. Maybe an issue with the modem ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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