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Re: Please help with RH 4.0 silly install problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kyle Ferrio)
Mon Oct 21 19:00:52 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Kyle Ferrio wrote:
> > 5 Net Configurator encloses expect/send pairs that yo enter (for chat
> > scripts) in single quotes. This might seem like a good idea, unless your
> > password happens to include a single quote. Tracking down where this
> > info is stored (i.e., -not- in /usr/lib/ppp) was fun. locate got a
> > workout.
>
> Enter the ' as \' -- just as you would do if you were writing a chat
> script. I *think* that will work. I seem to remember testing the
> PPP setup in the new netcfg using a password with a ' in it, and it
> worked.
>
> (It's debatable whether this is the right approach; however, I want to
> allow people to insert pauses and such with backslash sequences, so
> I couldn't just escape everything escapable in chat strings.)
>
> michaelkjohnson
Thanks. I thought about that, too, but didn't try it. I realized I had
already thought too hard, so I just edited chat-ppp0 by hand. If I were
really ambitious, I'd write a perl script to filter a string with any and
all self-consistent escapes to expand into what the user typed, verbatim.
But not today. :)
Kyle Ferrio
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