ONDELAY(8C)

💅 ONDELAY — section 8C, bestie 💅

okay so you found ondelay in the 8C part of the manual (that's the system-administration-adjacent, communications-y corner of manpage land, iykyk) and you're like "what is this, why is it here, is it for me?" and the answer is: it's not for you, but let's talk about it anyway 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ondelay — a program that faxaddmodem and probemodem invoke to configure a modem device so those programs can actually use it

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea 🍓 ondelay is a program that gets invoked by faxaddmodem and probemodem to configure a modem device for use by those programs.

that's it. that's the whole job. it's the little helper guy in the group chat who sets up the modem so the other two can do their thing 💖

🚨 IMPORTANT, no cap: it is not intended to be run directly. like, do not just type ondelay into your shell and hit enter, bestie. it's not giving "standalone tool," it's giving "backstage crew for faxaddmodem and probemodem." let them call it. that's its whole moment. periodt 💅

and that's the vibe check for ondelay 🦋

this page was last touched on Dec 3, 2012 — yeah, she's been iconic in the ONDELAY(8C) section for a minute now, aging like fine wine, no notes 💜 ✨ 🎀