Re: [Smslink-users] Newline character in SMS message

[Jeff M. <je...@te...>]

Hi Philippe,

It is specific to SMSLink.  If I talk to the modem directly, I can do:
AT+CMGS="123456789" <cr>
first line<cr>
2nd line<cr>
3rd line<cr><ctrl-Z>
When the SMS is received, it will properly show up as
first line
2nd line
3rd line

I can't find any way to do the same thing with SMSLink.  I would prefer to
use stdin (i.e. sendsms -f -), but I can't get it to work anyway I have
tried it.  SMSLink changes any special characters to a space, so a "/r"
turns into just " r".

Thanks,
Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philippe Andersson" <pa...@ib...>
To: "Jeff Meek" <je...@te...>
Cc: <sms...@li...>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Smslink-users] Newline character in SMS message

Hello Jeff,

Jeff Meek wrote:
> This seems like an easy question, but I didn't find it anywhere in the
docs,
> email archives or google.
>
> How do I insert a newline or line break into the sms message?
> I have tried sending a plain text file with the line breaks, backslash-n,
> %-n, ^n, ctrl-n, etc.
> The message always gets concatenated into a single line of text.
>
> The docs for the AT+CMGS command says any ascii character can be sent
except
> for ctrl-z.  How do I send a line break?
Is your question specific to SMSLink (i.e. "how will SMSLink treat
embedded newline characters") or is this a generic question about the
SMS protocol ?

Ph. A.