Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Dialer support for Telebit
Message-ID: <3549@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 21:30:17 GMT
References: <399@vsi1.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <399@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
> 
> octopus Any ACUHAYES 19200 fast99731831 ogin:--ogin: uuvsi1 assword: xyzzy
> 
> The line indicates that uucico should use the Hayes dialer to dial
> "fast99731831".  Since octopus has S92=1, I need to set S50=255.  In the
> L-dialcodes file I have:
>  
> fast S50=255DT
> 
> This works because the Hayes dialer only prepends an "AT" when the first
> character in the number is a "S".

Yes, this is kinda true, but I think the logic is backwards - it's more
like uucico only prepends "DT" to the phone number when the phone number
is "numeric".  I don't have sun sources online at the moment to check.

Note that such action may be sun/release specific.  Where the dialer isn't
senstive to prefixes on the number, you can be nasty and code a couple of
control/h's (backspaces) into the dialcodes file to "erase" the "DT" that
the dialer may have sent prior to the "number".

Finally, some uucp's, notably Ultrix, translate equal signs in the phone
number to some other character, comma I think, which screws up the approach
unless you go an patch uucico...

-- 
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