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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:53:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        aphor@ripco.com
Cc:        vladimir-bsd-stable@math.uic.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tip
Message-ID:  <199910150653.XAA78544@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <38068A5A.BBC152D@ripco.com> from Jeremy McMillan at "Oct 14, 1999 08:58:50 pm"

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> You know, that one got me too: I had once tried to use tip for numeric
> paging, and I couldn't do the dial
> pause. I don't have time to try it myself, but if you want to, try this
> hack: it substitutes the comma-delimiter with a semicolon-delimiter in the
> phones file. A semicolon in a dial string is supposed to return the modem to
> command-mode after dialing. That will let the telco connection continue, but
> will wait for AT commands to go on-hook or start the handshake. I can't
> imagine a use for that in tip. Every time *I* have done that, it has been
> for troubleshooting and was convenient to type the AT command manually.
> 
> I wonder why just a linefeed character won't work...

A more correct fix would be to add \ escaping to this piece of code
so that you could do ``5551212\,\,\,\,5555\,\,\,\,123456''.



-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25)                    rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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