Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!ptimtc!rdmei!icspub!astemgw!kuis!aegis!davidg From: davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Controlling answer tone sequence Message-ID: <7PqsZ1w163w@aegis.or.jp> Date: 1 Apr 91 21:54:53 GMT References: <7142.27F6C1AE@zswamp.fidonet.org> Organization: Aegis Society Lines: 53 root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh) writes: > Dave McLane (davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp ) wrote: > > >Unless somebody has something new to add, I think that > >answers the > >question: for UNIX, you have to use a modem who > >initialization for > >dial-in can be stored wholly in the modem (via RAM or DIP > >switches). > > OK, 'original' thought: init is set up to respawn getty on your login tty > ports; could you perhaps spawn something else which would init the modem and > then exec getty? I guess I should have waited a bit longer before coming to that conclusion; quite a few other people have said the same thing (mostly in mail): one can have init respawn something else that will init the modem and then getty, or one can init some other program that will do both in one shot. In a larger context, being new to UNIX, I see that I had it in mind that I could use what came of the box (ISC V2.2) to do what I want and was therefore talking about what could be done with the system I have. But the answers to this and other questions have shown me that what comes in the box is many times just a place to hang all the bug fixes, additional programs, etc., etc. With regard to initing the modem, I didn't know if this was something that could be done with the my ISC UNIX in some way I wasn't aware of, or whether I needed to add some new wrinkle. I take it I have to add something new (like I had to add the FAS driver, the compress program, the patch to bring it up to V2.2.1, etc.). Back to the problem of initing the modem, what sounds cleanest (and most educational for me) is to have the source code for a uugetty-like program (I need to call out and in on these lines) that would allow me to init the modem *and* to set the speed according to the kind of messages that are returned by the modem. If anybody knows of such code and where I could find it, could they let me know? --Dave McLane JUNET DINTERNET BITNET via UUNET ==== The Aegis Society ============================================= Minami Hirao 1-6, Imazato The content and process of Nagaokakyo-shi, Kyoto-fu, 617 Japan international/cultural Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087 communication. ====================================================================