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[agua00]

DialinID is a string that the user has to enter.
so it get defined by the following


waitfor "Please enter your userid > "
transmit DialinID
transmit "$$REQ ID="`%s`" BID=* BCHSEP=OPT3^M" DialinID

currently when i run this I get nothing.

any ideas on why this is?

 

[knob]

You cannot have format specifiers in a transmit statement, so that is why the referenced string is not appearing (I'm not even sure if that should compile successfully). What you can do is either use a couple different transmit statement:

transmit "$$REQ ID="
transmit DialinID
transmit "BID=* BCHSEP=OPT3^M"

or you can use the strfmt command to create a string that pulls in the value in DialinID, and then send that string with one transmit command.


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