How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-27 Thread gary_aitcheson
Thanks everyone for the useful feed back on this question ! I will free up some time to work on it and get back when I have a result (hopefully positive). Cheers : ) Gary ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-25 Thread Douglas
Hi Jaque, Surely Gary must have a phone line and relatively old iMac with built-in modem, or at least a modem, or he wouldn't be wanting to use what he assumes to be a dial-up routine to an external device? It's over 15 years since I did anything with at AT codes, but I can remember the pain

Re: How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-23 Thread Sarah Reichelt
The equivalent on a Mac would be identical, except instead of com3 you'd want to use modem as the port specifier. Both the PC com3 port and the Mac modem port are serial ports. Rev can write to those just fine, but the problem you will find on your iMac is that it won't have any serial ports;

Re: How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: It depends how the USB modem is recognised by the system. If you have one, check the driverNames. If the list includes something link cu.modem.usb, then you can use that as the driver name and open a port to that device as described above. I'm writing that down. Thanks.

How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-22 Thread gary_aitcheson
Hi - I am a long time OOP user, Rev fan and message board lurker. I have a totally off topic question. Many years ago I built a program that will dial a phone number through the modem port and then hang up. My handset is on a Y connection to the phone line so it stays open and I can speak to

Re: How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-22 Thread DunbarX
I still use a bunch of hyperdialer gadgets that connect between a handset and the telephone. The HC dial command generates DTMF tones, so that in an address book, a one line script will dial the number. In fact, before I found those devices (20 years ago) it was possible to have the tones

Re: How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-22 Thread Alejandro Tejada
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Re: How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
gary_aitcheson wrote: put *67 before theNumber open file com3: for write write ATS7=1L0DT theNumber cr to file com3: wait 5 secs close file com3: I do not understand much of this, but it appears that it's usual function is to dial a fax machine in order to transmit letters

Re: How to Dial Using Rev ?

2010-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: But I only replied to say that I thought all HC commands were supported in Rev to the extent that they at least did nothing. But there is no dial in the dictionary. Are there others? Maybe, but I can't think of any offhand. I've never done a direct comparison though.