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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 1995 07:40:18 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org, ache@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: startslip isn't just broken - it's EVIL! 
Message-ID:  <199510241440.HAA23772@aslan.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Oct 1995 05:57:59 PDT." <11667.814539479@time.cdrom.com> 

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>> > 
>> > > Guys!  Use slattach and chat, and save yourselves the stress 8)
>> > 
>> > I've never managed to get that combo to work!  Chat just dies
>> > immediately.. :-(
>> 
>> I got it working under 2.0. There were some strange problems but in
>> common it worked. I remember that chat does not understand the dial-up
>> string in the command line, it needs a file with it.
>
>No, that's not the problem here - I have my chat script in a file and
>that very same chat script works just fine with chat if I *don't run
>it from slattach*.  When run from slattach, chat blows up when it
>first tries to talk to the port.  I don't know what's wrong, but
>slattach clearly isn't setting up things correctly before invoking the
>external script.  I tried for quite a few days to get this to work
>and finally gave up in disgust.
>
>						Jordan

Sounds like the same problem I was having getting expect to work.  I really
wish it would since you write *one*, really intelligent expect script that
could login to almost any terminal server and fire up slip.
--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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