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.

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.