Smart Modem Dial Out Database

[Mark Horton]

In article <802 at mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> martillo at mit-athena.UUCP (Yakim Martillo) writes:
>Has anything like termcap or printcap been developed for smart modem
>dial-out and modem-control?

Honey DanBer UUCP has such an animal in the /usr/lib/uucp/Dialers file.
It's based on the chat script, just like L.sys/Systems file lines.

Here's an example:
hayes	=,-,	"" AT\r\c OK\r \EATDT\T\r\c CONNECT

This says that the string for pause or dialtone wait (= or -) is
comma, and that you dial by saying AT (CR, no NL), wait for OK (CR),
turn on echo checking, send ATDT, send the phone number, CR, no NL,
then wait for CONNECT.

Then the /usr/lib/uucp/Devices file says which ports are hayes dialers.

	Mark