dial

The dial command tells your modem to dial a phone number. You must use the modem command to tell Autolog what type of modem you're using before using the dial command.
 
dial phone number

You may include a comma to insert a two-second pause while dialing:
 

dial 9,555-1212

You can precede the phone number with T for tone dialing or P for pulse dialing. You can also include other special characters for other functions that your modem may honor, such as W for "wait for second dial tone."
 

dial T9W555-1212

After the remote modem answers, Autolog will switch to talk mode so that you can access the remote system.

Note If the dial command was executed from a script file, Autolog will not enter talk mode automatically. Use the talk command after the dial command in a script if you want to enter talk mode after dialing from a script.

You can dial the contents of one of your modem's dialing registers (if your modem supports this feature) by using Rregister number instead of a phone number:
 

dial R1

You can also force the modem "off hook" to connect with a remote modem that you've dialed yourself by hand by using the letter O instead of a phone number:
 

dial O

redial

The redial command lets you redial a phone number a specified number of times. The redial command stops redialing if a dialing attempt results in a successful modem connection.

If no phone number is specified, the redial command will dial the phone number last used in a dial command. For example,
 

redial 3

would dial the last dialed phone number up to three times.

You can also specify a new number to dial in a redial command:
 

redial 3 555-1212

This command would dial 555-1212 up to three times.

To hang up the modem without exiting Autolog, use the hangup command.