On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: > What's the easiest way to get an init string into the modem? > Specifically, I want "AT#CID=1" to put the modem into caller-id reading mode. > Is there a simple way to do something like 'echo "AT#CID=1" > /dev/modem'?
Take a look at the chat program provided by the ppp package, you can generate scripts that send and wait on modem commands with it, or you could do it in perl probably ;-). -- Ashley Clark
