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- From: agodwin@acorn.co.uk (Adrian Godwin)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Autodialer
- Message-ID: <20028@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 17:55:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.010038.3104@msdrl.com>
- Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, UK
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- In article <1992Nov6.010038.3104@msdrl.com> karkan@msdrl.com (Jim Karkanias) writes:
- .. Does anyone know of a public domain or shareware program that would let me
- .. assemble an arbitrary string of characters (representing those keys on a
- .. telephone) and send them to a modem? I'd like to be able to programatically
- .. control a remote process; this process uses the phone as an interface...
- ..
- .. Any info is much appreciated. Thanks.
- ..
- .. Jim
-
- I would have thought that any popular commms program (Telix, Procomm, etc if you're
- using MS-DOS on a PC-clone) would do this as part of the autodialer support.
- In fact, a simple terminal emulator would do if you don't mind retyping the
- sequence every time you want it : the DTMF dialer in a modern modem will do all
- the hard work.
-
- -adrian
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- Adrian Godwin : agodwin@acorn.co.uk : adrian@fangorn.demon.co.uk : g7hwn@gb7khw
- ObDisclaimer : I believe this rubbish .. don't imagine that anyone else does.
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