We are using Universe 10.1 on AIX.
We are trying to set up a modem in Universe so that it can dial out and
send data to an outsource to be initiated from within a Universe
program.

We have tried a few things - but nothing yet has worked (we have set
the modem up in the &DEVICES& file, although not completely sure of the
correct settings and have tried test programs using OPENDEV).

Has anybody tried this before? Any help would be apprieciated.

What is at the other end? Can you use other facilities (email, FTP
etc)?

In any event, I would imagine that your task will be easier simply
using some shell scripts around standard AIX utilities

Since the modem is a "serial device" and as far as unix is concerned -
a device = a file, can you OSOPEN the serial device and talk to it as a
file? You can certainly do this with pipes.

hth
Mike

Thanks for your replies. I seem to have sorted this now. I set up the
device in &DEVICE& file in Universe and then had to add the line
'Direct tty3 - Any direct' into the /usr/lib/uucp/Devices file in aix.

I was then able to write AT commands to the device using OPENDEV &
WRITESEQ in a basic program.



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