Re: [Hampshire] Dial-up modem

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:08 +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Courtier-Dutton" <james.dutton@???>
> To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Dial-up modem
> [snip]
>
> >
> > Put a semi colon at the end of the dial string.
> > e.g
> >
> > ATDT12345;
> >
> > Dials 12345 and then no modem sounds happen.
> >
> > --
>
> Thanks - but whap Linux app can I run this in?
>

You should be able to do something like,

===========================================
#! /bin/sh

sleep 600 < /dev/modem &
stty speed < /dev/modem
echo "ATDT12345;" > /dev/modem
===========================================

You will need the sleep to be long enough that it doesn't drop the line
while your on the phone I think. You may need to set more than the
speed of the line to the modem.

You could run each of the commands from the comamand line say like:-

sleep 9999999 < /dev/modem
stty speed < /dev/moden

As long as you don't log off you wont need to run that again.

then just do

echo "ATDT 012344567890;" > /dev/modem



I was doing some work with a tty device a few days ago and used this
method without problem.

Regards,
Tom.