i'd like to use PD to control an old-school modem. I thought it might be possible using comport, but it doesn't seem to do anything. I set the baud rate to 57600 8 N 1, opened the port using "devicename /dev/modem", and then tried "print ATZ", "print "ATDT", "print ATA", etc; but no response, not even the "OK" or "NO CARRIER" that it should get. the modem works fine through other term programs. anyone tried this?

Did you have any luck with this?

You can try using the [shell] object in extended. [shell] lets you send commands to your OS shell and sends stdout through an outlet. This way you should be able to interact with your modem using some other term program within pd.