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By James T. Dennis, answerguy@ssc.com
Starshine Technical Services, http://www.starshine.org/


(?) Modem dial out

From Infinite Loop on Wed, 02 Dec 1998

Hi Jim,

How are you? I'm want to write a program that enables my Linux system to dial a page to my beeper, this function to be activated upon certain events. I am learning C. I came across a system call ioctl that is supposed to let me control the devices, but I cannot find further information on it's usage. Or is there other programs/functions that you can advise me to work on to achieve the result?

Thanks.

(!) You might want to try the Linux Gazette "Search" feature. I wrote a fairly extensive piece on this back in May.
Using the search phrase "pager software" at http://www.linuxgazette.com the following was the fourth hit:
The Answer Guy 28: Email Alpha-Paging software
http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue28/tag_paging.html
Granted I wasn't able to find it so easily using Yahoo! and Alta Vista. When I elaborated on the phrase to include:
pager software linux source code
... I got a surprise:
Debian Package - hylafax-doc 4.0.2-5
http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/stable/comm/hylafax-client.html
	  HylaFAX support [sic] the sending and receiving of
	  facsimiles, the polled retrieval of facsimiles and
	  the send [sic] of alphanumeric pages.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(emphasis mine).

(?) Regards, Joseph Ang

(!) I'd get those packages and read through their sources a bit.

(?) Promptness: It's Just a Lucky Shot

From Infinite Loop on Fri, 04 Dec 1998

(?) Hi Jim,

Thanks for your prompt reply! I'm very surprised to receive your reply in just a day! Really, really appreciate that :)

Best regards, Joseph Ang

(!) You were just lucky. The question was easy and appealed to me.
Unfortunately there are many questions that I just don't "get to." Especially since I'm getting about five times more TAG traffic this month then last.


Copyright © 1999, James T. Dennis
Published in The Linux Gazette Issue 36 January 1999


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