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Command line dialer
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What network monitoring application are you using, or are you developing your own?
I don't know of any command line dialers, and can't imagine why you would want to use one in Windows. You could probably write a batch file that would send commands to the COM port, but it wouldn't be very effective, as I'm not sure how to receive a response from the modem.
I believe that something along the lines of this would work:
print ATDT<phone number>; COM1:
pause 10
print ATDT<pager digits>; COM1:
pause 3
print ATH0 COM1:
but it has been a LONG time since I have done any serious batch programming.
You will be much better off using a voice capable modem for this purpose, though. You can use their on-board DSP to detect tones, silence and send tones.
Even better is a CTI board, like a Dialogic, Brooktrout or Natural Microsystems. They have excellent call progress tone detection, and they were designed to do what you are attempting to do with a modem.
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I don't know of any command line dialers, and can't imagine why you would want to use one in Windows. You could probably write a batch file that would send commands to the COM port, but it wouldn't be very effective, as I'm not sure how to receive a response from the modem.
I believe that something along the lines of this would work:
print ATDT<phone number>; COM1:
pause 10
print ATDT<pager digits>; COM1:
pause 3
print ATH0 COM1:
but it has been a LONG time since I have done any serious batch programming.
You will be much better off using a voice capable modem for this purpose, though. You can use their on-board DSP to detect tones, silence and send tones.
Even better is a CTI board, like a Dialogic, Brooktrout or Natural Microsystems. They have excellent call progress tone detection, and they were designed to do what you are attempting to do with a modem.
pansophic
Like I said, it has been a long time....
Thanks for the correction. Also, I'm not certain that it will work, because you need to terminate the line with a carriage return (and maybe a line feed) to get the modem to actually do something. I don't remember if echo will append that to then end of the line or not.
pansophic
Thanks for the correction. Also, I'm not certain that it will work, because you need to terminate the line with a carriage return (and maybe a line feed) to get the modem to actually do something. I don't remember if echo will append that to then end of the line or not.
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