We were associated with the early version of the development of this software. 
"check" is a program that checks for the presence of the phone on the serial 
port. In advertantly the source code of that was not included. That has 
continued in the recently released version. 

- Prabhat Ranjan
On Saturday 22 May 2004 17:19, USM Bish wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 02:00:29PM +0530, Arvind Narayanan wrote:
> > > We have gone live with the second release of R Connect for Linux.
> > > Please find attached the link for the same.
> > >
> > > http://www.relianceinfo.com/Infocomm/html/rservices/rservices_linux_rco
> > >nnect.html
>
> [some snipped]
>
> > [GPL? Wow!! but all I can see are binaries?]
>
> Actually, the  dial up  process is  straight forward  chat with
> pppd. There  is only  one binary  called "check"  which has  no
> documentation.  The ouput  of strings  clearly indicates  "GCC:
> (GNU)  2.96  20000731  (Red  Hat  Linux  7.3  2.96-110)"  using
> glibc-2.0. This is used only in the setup process. The rest are
> shell scripts for setup, connecting and dosconnecting.
>
> But definitely,  your observations on  the lincesing  and other
> things are stuff I never noticed before ... does look odd for a
> pppd and chat based dial mechanism !
>
> Bish

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