filePro connect to phone line and dial a voice line

[daN baueR]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Nancy Palmquist
<Nancy.Palmquist at vss3.com> wrote:
> You guys are way out in left field with the auto dial stuff.
>
> He wants to dial the phone number attached to an apartment in his database.
>
> filepro had a feature for this in the very early versions.  I saw it
> work.  AIX might be a platform where it will still work.
>
> I know it does not work in Windows since Windows3, at least I never
> could get it to work.
>
> It requires access to the com port or the modem port.  If you can send
> signals to the modem and had the phone hooked up to the modem in the
> other jack they usually provided in that version of modem it might happen.
>
> You have way to many variables to make this something someone could give
> you help with on the list.
>
> I do remember the command was OUTS "str"
> Definition says: Sends characters to a serial port.  Requires that the
> PFOUTS environment variable be set.
> PFOUTS = port, baud, wordlen, parity, stopbit
>
> UNIX would require something like:  tty1a, 9600,8,n,1 and then with a
> Hayes modem you could set a dialing code ATDT[phonenumber]
>
> Probably need much more and the right hardware but maybe it is doable.
>
> Nancy
>
>

Thank you. This sounds very interesting. I'll play around a little and
see if I can get anything working with OUTS. I hope everyone enjoys
their extended weekend.

Dan