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- From: f92anha@fy.chalmers.se (Anders Hammarqvist)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Autodialer
- Summary: modem dialing
- Keywords: modem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.142314.21736@fy.chalmers.se>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 14:23:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.010038.3104@msdrl.com> <1992Nov6.160857.16550@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Nov6.160857.16550@unislc.uucp>
- mgc@unislc.uucp (Marc Christensen) writes:
- >Jim Karkanias (karkan@msdrl.com) wrote:
- >: 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...
- >:
- >The problemI ran into and you probably will to was ...
- >the modems all expect a dial-tone before they will dial. No tone No Dial.
- >If the device "Answers" the phone then you will need to find a way around it.
- >Do the regular/Leased line switches on a modem disable this feature?
-
- On most modems sending ATX3 will disable dialtone checking.
-
- >Making the modem dial is simple you need to send ATDT1234567890*# out the
- >serial port for a standard hayes modem. some brands will also handle A,B,C,D
- >codes like in a 12 digit pad.
-
- Also, adding a ; at the end of the ATDT123 will put the modem back into
- command mode so that you can send another ATDT123 sequence without having
- to hang up.
-
- Anders Hammarquist
-