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From: jhc@mtune.ATT.COM (Jonathan Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Timeout in Expect Sequence
Message-ID: <1148@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 23:30:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: mtune.1148
Posted: Sun Aug 16 23:30:55 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Aug-87 05:13:39 EDT
References: <2205@emory.uucp>
Reply-To: jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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In article <2205@emory.uucp> km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>I would like to be able to vary the timeout period for
>waiting for the expect sequence in the L.sys (or Systems)
>I would like to do the same thing with HDUUCP on System V.

What I do is this:

	2224 foo bar ... Answered-\c-Answered

ie wait for "Answered", if you don't see it send a null string with no
newline (ie nothing), wait for "Answered" again. I use this for
international calls which take longer than the default timeout to set up.
-- 
Jonathan Clark
[NAC,attmail]!mtune!jhc

An Englishman never enjoys himself except for some noble purpose.