MODEMTEST(1p)

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💖 MODEMTEST 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair because we're talking about modemtest, which lives in section 1p of the manual — that's the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the universe, where all the good chaos lives 🫶

It's a tool for examining your modem through Perl's Device::SerialPort. that's it. that's the whole vibe. she pokes at your modem and tells you what she sees, no cap 💅

✨ NAME ✨

modemtest — the tool for examining your modem through Perl's Device::SerialPort. literally her whole personality 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

modemtest [OPTS] [DEVICE [BAUD [DATA [PARITY [STOP [FLOW]]]]]]

okay so the positional args go in this order, and if you don't give her one, she's got a default already picked out, she's very prepared like that:

  • DEVICE — the device to use as a serial port. default: "/dev/modem"
  • BAUD — serial speed to use. default: 9600
  • DATA — number of databits to use. default: 8
  • PARITY — type of parity to use. default: "none"
  • STOP — number of stop bits to use. default: 1
  • FLOW — kind of flow control to use. default: "none"

and then the options, which go in [OPTS] up top before all that:

  • -h, --help — help report 📋
  • --skip-status — skip the modem status bit tests 🙈 like, don't even look at them
  • --hide-possible — don't show all possible settings. she's being mysterious, she's keeping some secrets 💜

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ngl bestie, some systems, some serial ports, and some modems just behave in strange ways. it's giving unhinged. 😭

so to test the capabilities of Perl's Device::SerialPort, this tool queries the system settings for the DEVICE you gave her, and then she attempts to set up the port and send the initialization string ATE1 to the modem. and then she reports the results she saw. that's the whole job. she's doing her best and she's iconic for it ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>. king behavior, we love to see it 🔥

Copyright 2000-2004 by Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>.

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms ans Perl itself.

okay and for the cute sign-off: this little legend comes to you as part of perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19 — periodt 💅✨ go forth and interrogate your modem, bestie, she's ready for the vibe check 🎀

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