chat follows the standard C/Unix practice of using \ (not /) as the prefix
("escape") character for insertion of special characters ("man chat" for the
details). So I'd try \/ to escape the / character, not //. If that doesn't
work, you might see if it is having trouble with the & character (that is,
try \& for it).
But what you really want to do is look in your log (usually
/var/spool/messages) and see what chat is actually doing during a connection
attempt. That's much better than guessing.
At 09:10 AM 3/27/99 -0600, Jeremy Wiebe wrote [abridged]:
>I'm not an expert here but could you put the / in twice. As
>yebo//12345678&yebo
>
>>One of ISP's which serves this town uses usernames of the form
>>'yebo/12345678&yebo'. They use PAP password authentication.
>>
>>My problem is this: How can I get this username through the chat script.
>>If I include the username either as a literal or as a shell variable the
>>script fails to complete. (Both succeed with other 'normal' usernames).
>>I presume the chat script is interpreting the '/' symbol.
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