Using a phone card with a modem

[Christopher Swingley <cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu>]

I'm wondering about the feasability of using a long distance phone
card for dial-up access while I'm on the road.  My recollection from
using these cards is that there's a lot of talking and prompting
during the dialing process, and I have a feeling this would mess up
a standard chatscript where it wants to dial all the numbers at once.

There are escape codes within chat (\d = 1 sec, \p = 0.1 sec), that
allow chat to sit around and wait, but I'm not sure if they'd work
in the dialing section:

    "" ATDT99999999\d\d\d\d88888888\d\d\d\d7777777

(9's are the phone card toll free number, 8's are the phone card id, 7's
are the actual ISP phone number)

Will this work?  Is there another way?  Can one acheive this manually by
using minicom -- if so, how does one get the ppp connection going?

Thanks!

Chris
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