Sidebar: Defining the chat Script

To define the chat script, you need the uucp login name and password you will use to access the remote system. You can then use the cu command to contact the remote system to find out what you must define for the script. A sample session would look like

chare@unilabs> cu -l

tty21 Connected

<send NEWLINE>
login: nuucp
Welcome to Unilabs Research

Shere=bugs
~.

So, a chat script for the system bugs, which is directly connected to the local system, would be described this way:

expect nothing
send newline
expect login:
send nuucp

This translates into a chat script that looks like

"" \r\c login: nuucp

The pair of double quotes means "expect nothing"; \r\c is "send newline." These are two of a number of special characters used in chat scripts, which are listed in Table 1.