Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:16:25 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: "Michael Vondung" <michael@vcommunities.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PPP and the backslash-containing AT command in ppp.conf Message-ID: <200309012316.25143.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <002001c3708c$e454c940$0100a8c0@equilibrium> References: <002001c3708c$e454c940$0100a8c0@equilibrium>
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:58, Michael Vondung wrote: > I am fairly to FreeBSD (and any kind of Unix), so please be easy on me = in > case I'm overlooking the obvious. :) > > I've been trying to connect to my ISP with an external "Elsa Microlink > ISDN/TL pro" modem. The init string that the modem requires is AT&F\N9.= I > modified the following line in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf: > > set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \ > \"\" AT OK-AT-OK AT&F\\N9 OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT > > The man page for chat > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dchat&sektion=3D8) says that= \\ > sends a backlash character, so I figured that AT&F\\N9 would be sent as > AT&F\N9. However, it doesn't seem to send a backslash. Here's the relev= ant > bit from /var/log/ppp.log: The string is interpreted twice -- first by ppp itself which reduces '\\'= to=20 '\' so caht sees only one '\'. Sould work if you use '\\\\', that is: AT&F\\\\N9 which the first interpretation reduces to: AT&F\\N9 Malcolm
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