modemtest - Tool to examining your modem through Perl's Device::SerialPort

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  SEE ALSO  AUTHOR  COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 

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NAME

modemtest − Tool to examining your modem through Perl’s Device::SerialPort

SYNOPSIS

modemtest [ OPTS ] [ DEVICE [ BAUD [ DATA [ PARITY [ STOP [ FLOW ]]]]]]

DEVICE Device to use as a serial port (default: "/dev/modem")
BAUD Serial speed to use (default: 9600)
DATA Number of databits to use (default: 8)
PARITY Type of parity to use (default: "none")
STOP Number of stop bits to use (default: 1)
FLOW Kind of flow control to use (default: "none")
−h, −−help Help report
−−skip−status Skip modem status bit tests
−−hide−possible Don't show all possible settings

DESCRIPTION

Some systems, serial ports, and modem behave in strange ways. To test the capabilities of Perl’s Device::SerialPort, this tool queries the system settings for the given DEVICE, and attempts to set up the port and send the initialization string " ATE1" to the modem, reporting the results seen.

SEE ALSO

Device::SerialPort(3)

perl(1)

AUTHOR

Kees Cook <[email protected]>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2000−2004 by Kees Cook <[email protected]>.

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms ans Perl itself.

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