mgetty 0.98 - checking modem config

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It makes more sense to me to implement your modem configuration
checker as a separate utility.  You could run it when you get a new
modem and also run it from cron to see if things have changes when they
shouldn't have.  It would just set the tty lock file like any other
program using the modem and do its thing.

Just my $.02,
Costa
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   Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 20:00:35 +0100
   From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
   To: gert@greenie.muc.de
   Subject: mgetty 0.98
   
   I was just thinking the other day "wouldn't it be nice if mgetty could be 
   setup to check the modem configuration, and write 'my' settings to the 
   modem's nvram when it finds a [new] modem not yet so initialized. 
   
   I thought I could do this with seb-expect sub-send chat strings (as
   documented in the man page for the chat that comes with pppd)...but mgetty
   doesn't seem to support these sub strings.  Is there another way to have
   mgetty send string2 or string3 depending on the result it gets from
   sending string1 in the init string?  I've heard that you can only write to
   nvram so many times...so I'd rather not write the nvram unless it needs
   it. 
   
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