filePro connect to phone line and dial a voice line

[Kenneth Brody]

On 5/22/2014 4:18 PM, daN baueR wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Nancy Palmquist
[...]
>> 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]
[...]
> 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.

Note that, on a *nix box, OUTS will send it out the serial port of the *nix 
host.  If you are using Windows boxes as terminals to the *nix box, then 
OUTS is probably not what you want.

I ass/u/me that you want to have your AIX filePro dial a phone sitting next 
to the user, who is using a Windows terminal emulator?  In that case, you 
will probably want to use something as you mentioned before -- send a 
special sequence of characters to the terminal emulator, which will be 
recognized by that program to mean "dial the phone on COMx".  Note that the 
filePro command you want in this case would be SHOW RAW.

-- 
Kenneth Brody