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

[Philippe A. <pa...@ib...>]

Hello Jeff,

Jeff Meek wrote:
> 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
Understood.

> 
> 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".
That's correct -- at present, the client (sendsms) will remove newline
characters from the input, and the server input method won't accept them
anyway. But I see how I could get this to work. If this is important for
you (and not dramatically urgent), I'll start working on this.

HTH

Cheers. Bye.

Ph. A.

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