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Re: Help needed configuring OS/2 Warp SLIP dialer for Annex server...

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From: Anon
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 15:28
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In <3g7su9$3ad@sol.ccs.deakin.edu.au>, ninja@Deakin.Edu.Au (Paul Vatta) writes:
>I need some help configuring the Warp SLIP dialer to work with my Uni's
>terminal server.  The included annex.cmd REXX script doesn't work as it 
>doesn't do anything after the modem connects with the message CONNECT XXXXX.
>Here is an example of how it appear/worked under Trumpet Winsock for Windows:
>
>> Annex Command Line Interpreter   *   Copyright 1991 Xylogics, Inc.  
>>
>> Checking authorization, Please wait...
>> Annex login: MYUSERNAME
>> Password: MYPASSWORD
>>
>> Permission granted 
>> ***WARNING************************WARNING***************************WARNING*** 
>>   This service is for AUTHORIZED USERS ONLY.  It is a criminal offence to:  
>>       i.  obtain access to data without permission,
>>	ii. damage, delete, alter or insert data without permission.  
>> ****************************************************************************** 
>> Wed Jan 25 21:33:11 1995
>> elara port 1 : slip
>> Switching to SLIP.
>> Annex address is XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  Your address is XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX.
>
>IP addresses are dynamically allocated.  Any help getting the existing 
>script working or any other viable alternative would be appreciated.  
>Please email any replies.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>-- 
>        ---------------------------------------------------
>Paul
>ninja@deakin.edu.au


Had a similar problem - turned out that the quoted text (i.e. "Annex:") in the script did
did not exactly match what the server was sending - this is a alpha pattern matching
comparing two text strings - the must match exactly and are case sensitive.  I simply changed
"Annex:" to "annex:" and everything worked fine.
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