Detecting of modem's turned on?

Mon Dec 22 16:37:13 UTC 2003

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:55:50AM +0000, Neil Bird wrote:
> Around about 19/12/2003 15:20, Don typed ...
> >... what's the matter with issuing an ATZ (or other) command to the
> >modem and waiting for an OK, or a timeout to occur?
> 
>   Well, that'd be my question - what's the command line util. to do 
> that?  I've only ever found minicom in the past, and it's interactive.

chat(8) - Automated conversational script with a modem
 
Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky.