[ale] chatting to my modem

[Robert L. Harris]

c_fowler at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> I want my linux box to dial my pager number and send certain number codes
> to my pager when things happen.  I do not want to buy a commercial software
> package to do this.  I think I can do it with a combination of scripting and
> some program taht can talk to the modem and send at commands.  Does anyone know
> how to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Christopher Fowler
> ----------------------------------
> E-Mail:  c_fowler at hotmail.com
> Date: 29-Aug-97
> Time: 10:39:01
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I personally used to use a chat/expect combination.  That way,
the expect would call "chat" to actually do the dial/msg send and
then depending on the modem return strings would re-dial, log
a success, log a failure, etc...

Robert

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