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- This is a very early alpha release of my answering
- machine for OS/2. I started building it because of
- lack of other such software that supported my modem.
- I also wanted more features than the existing
- DOS/Windows software came with. In particular,
- fax forwarding and remote control.
- Since either my modem, or the DOS/Windows software
- that came with it, was very unreliable, I felt a
- need to improve on that too. Especially annoying
- is to come back and find the line still engaged,
- because a connection was not properly terminated.
-
- Right now, only the answering function is implemented,
- but I wanted to see if there would be any interest
- for this thing at all. Not that it will influence
- development, which will continue regardless.
- What I would like to know though, is if it functions
- with similar modems. The modem commands can be
- configured, so other type modems should be supported
- as well, but right now, the part that reads those
- settings is not done.
- To see if your modem is a candidate for this software
- it must support the following commands:
-
-
- DTE DCE Comment
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- AT+FCLASS=8 -> Enter voice mode
- <- OK
- AT+VLS=2 -> Connect voice to line
- <- VCON
- AT+VTX -> Start speaking
- <- CONNECT
- <DATA> ->
- <DLE><ETX> ->
- <- VCON Return to command mode
- AT+VTS=[933,0,12] -> Beep
- <- OK
- AT+VRX -> Start recording
- <- CONNECT
- <- <DATA>
- <- <DLE>b Busy detected
- or
- <- <DLE>q Silence detected
- Q -> Stop recording
- <- <DATA> Data left in buffer
- <- <DLE><ETX> DLE ETX signals end of data stream
- <- VCON Return to command mode
- AT+VLS=0 -> Disconnect line
- <- OK
- AT+FCLASS=0 -> Return to data mode
- <- OK
-
-
- What I would like to know from you, is what features
- you would like to see in a software answering machine
- and what you would be willing to pay for it.
- As soon as it is in a state to be released, it will
- be done so as shareware, but I do not want it to
- be uninteresting due to too steep pricing.
-
- Planned features
-
- - fax forwarding (on demand or automatic)
- - remote control for messages
- - remote launching of software through DTMF tones
- - MMPM/2 integration
- - anything else you or I might come up with
-
- Please contact me at:
-
- linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl
- or
- vlinstee@metropolis.nl