Don't know much about chat, but try something like this: programname < /dev/modem > /dev/modem 2>&1 -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:17 PM Subject: redirecting i/o question > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > Wanting to use my modem's speaker phone ability more and more, and > being annoyed by the fact that I'm only able to locate speaker phone > applications that run under x, I decided to write a very simple, and > down to earth bash script speaker phone, which will take command line > arguments, and use the chat program, calling the appropriate chat > script. > > However, I'm running into a minor problem. How do I redirect stdin and > stdout to /dev/modem, instead of having them tied to the tty, when I > run chat? When pppd runs chat before it establishes the ppp link, it > is already set to do i/o to the modem, so this isn't an issue for > pppd. If someone has suggestions on how to do this, please > share. Thanks. > > Greg > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBPMXk7s9z/XlyUyARAiy1AKCzJrzbrVOj1ZnwmqnLfYotwPfqiACg0Kwh > lHSNGI5BnPmYVVeZpdJkqzI= > =inEa > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
