Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:33:59 -0500 From: Jeff Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Nt and security
Hi Renaldo, At 01:54 AM 12/30/01 -0500, you wrote: >I need to commuunicate with my security system at my small business, can I >use Nt to do this or is there a nother comunication program that I can use >in DOS? If you're doing alarm panel programming you'll probably need a proprietary program from the manufacturer. But if you just need a dumb terminal program you have lots of solutions there. I used one called "BBS Caller" when I was calling the Bulletin Board systems years ago. Net_Tamer can act as a dumb terminal also. Of course if the Security equipment is PC based and Internet connected (which I doubt it is) you could most likely telnet into the system. Now if it's connected to the site Lan, has a IP address, runs a telnet daemon, and you can make a PPP connection to the lan you could use telnet to get to it. If you're trying to receive alarm notifications from the security system, you'd need a front door program to answer the phone through a modem. Then you'd need to gather the incoming info (hopefully in ASCII or a well known data format (not dtmf)) then pass that to a program to decode it and show the data on screen. If you need something like the above, you might be able to hack something together with a front door capable program like BG-Fax and some batch file programming using 4-dos. Q-basic might also help if the processing is more than 4dos could do. Hope this helps, Jeff Hawkins --- Monster Highway Information Systems http://www.monsterhighway.com ******************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word Unsubscribe as the subject. You MUST use the same address with which you subscribed! ********************************************************
