>>>>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, "Phil" == Phil Watkinson wrote:
Phil> Removing line 773 of faxaddmodem.sh works for me - tested with
Phil> Multitech and SupraExpress modems on a RedHat 6.0 clone Linux
Phil> distribution. The stty source (part of the sh-utils rpm) hasn't changed
Phil> for years so I suspect the Linux 2.2 kernel has introduced this
Phil> message.
Hiya Phil ;-)
It's the 'stty 0' which fails now. Previously:
[root@fax /root]# cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Linux release 4.2 (Biltmore)
Kernel 2.0.30 on an i586
[root@fax /root]# stty --version
stty (GNU sh-utils) 1.16
[root@fax /root]# stty 0
[root@fax /root]#
whereas now we see:
[root@ducent uucp]# cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
Kernel 2.2.14pre11 on a 2-processor i686
[root@ducent uucp]# stty --version
stty (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
Written by David MacKenzie.
[root@ducent uucp]# stty 0
stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested operations
[root@ducent uucp]#
The original author was apparently wanting a system-independent way of
resetting the modem . . . hanging up the line with stty seemed to do the trick. Until
now :-(
The man page for the working version says of the numeric argument to stty:
Special settings:
N Set the input and output speeds to N. N can be one
of: 0 50 75 110 134 134.5 150 200 300 600 1200 1800
2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 exta extb. exta is the
same as 19200; extb is the same as 38400. 0 hangs <--------
up the line if -clocal is set. <--------
IRIX 6.4 says:
Control Modes
0 hang up phone line immediately.
Whereas the current
Special settings:
N set the input and output speeds to N bauds
and no mention of the reset special case if N=0.
There's an interesting discussion of stty behaving this way in:
http://x36.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=445335138&CONTEXT=953500619.1000276005&hitnum=20
Aside from removing the call in the case of modern linux distros (ugly) can anyone
propose a solution? Is the reset even needed? The faxaddmodem script says:
#
# Send each command in SendString to the modem and collect
# the result in $OUT. Read this very carefully. It's got
# a lot of magic in it!
#
Magic . . . man I hate magic. Magic is for smart ppl.
-Darren
