ONDELAY(8)

✨ ONDELAY — the "no waiting around for carrier, bestie" page ✨

okay so this is ondelay, from section 8 of the System Manager's Manual. she's a tiny little helper program and honestly? she does exactly one thing and she does it flawlessly. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

ondelay — open a device without waiting for a carrier. that's it. that's the whole girl. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

/usr/sbin/ondelay

no flags, no args, no drama. she's a whole path and a vibe. periodt. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, ondelay gets invoked by faxaddmodem and probemodem to open a device without waiting for a carrier. that's the entire job description. she opens the thing, she does NOT sit there tapping her foot waiting for a carrier like some kind of chump. main character energy, honestly. 👑

fr fr, this is the plot: no carrier-waiting. none. zero. not happening. 🙈

also bestie, quick lore drop — this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others, we're not gatekeeping 🫶), because the original program literally does not have a manual page. so like, this page is the glow-up. iconic. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• hylafax(5)
• faxaddmodem(8)
• probemodem(8)

go read those too, iykyk. 💫

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this manual page was written by Dermot Bradley <bradley@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. thank you king, we appreciate you. 🫡💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋✨ this was ONDELAY(8) out of the System Manager's Manual — short, sweet, and lowkey perfect. go open a device. don't wait for carrier. slay. 💅🌸👑