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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