On Sun, 17 May 1998, Tony Nugent wrote:
> On Sun May 17 1998, "Dave Mielke" wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >Anyone out there want to rewrite chat to be less generic? I'd love to use
> > >a program that is designed just for dialing modems which would report the
> > >connect rate on syslog.
>
> You just might need to force chat to wait for a second or two (with a `\d')
> in order to get it
But in order to get that information, you have to use that -v option to
chat, which generates all sorts of extra junk that I don't want in my
logs. I was thinking of a program which would be based on the source for
chat. Instead of opening and parsing a text file, it would basically use
a static script. Most of the rest of the code would remain unchanged. I
have't looked into this myself because I'm lazy and disorganized. =-) I
did once get around to untarring the source. Oh well. I just think there
needs to be a program where you specify the number to dial, the number of
redials allowed, and the time to pause between redials. This program
should also make SIMPLE reports to the system log. Chat's -v option
reports way too much for just getting the baud rate.
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