Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!lloyd From: L.Parkes@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Lloyd Parkes) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Question about term.c and modems Message-ID: Date: 21 Aug 90 16:27:43 GMT References: <7349@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Organization: Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl's message of 20 Aug 90 12:52:19 GMT In article <7349@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (The Big Cheese) writes: Some modems require an initialization string before they will do anything useful. Has anyone figured out a way to have term.c or a shell script or something else provide a canned string to the modem? Isn't this what /etc/modemcap is for? While minix doesn't use a modemcap file for anything at the moment, that sounds like the logical way to do it to me. Lloyd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lloyd Parkes | lloyd@comp.vuw.ac.nz | ------------------------------------------------------------------------