mgetty 0.98 - checking modem config

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On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Gert Doering wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Yep. I second that. This would do fine, and not increase mgetty size and
> complexity (and, as we all now, the number of bugs hidden in there :) ).

The guy from Zyxel (I'm terrible with names) suggested just making the 
init chat at&f1 OK at[mystrings] OK.  Am I wrong in thinking that its 
better to have the prefered init string saved in nvram?  With the modem 
set to reset on dtr loss, my modems currently reload the settings I want 
them to have.  Would it make any difference to mgetty if they reset to 
factory defaults and had to be re-initialized with more than just ATZ?

I guess it probably wouldn't...but I still like the idea of an easy way 
to put my settings in new modems without having to mess with minicom and 
its config files.

Here's another idea...how bad would it be to have mgetty optionaly run chat 
much in the same way pppd uses the external chat program?


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