Re: AppleScript -> How to send a text message to a cellularphone
Re: AppleScript -> How to send a text message to a cellularphone
- Subject: Re: AppleScript -> How to send a text message to a cellularphone
- From: Bryan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 12:27:50 -0400
- Organization: Apex Radiology
If you want to use SMS protocol
PowerSMS is AppleScriptable (yes, I just made up that word.)
Home of PowerSMS, NetLuff and TBG French
If you want to use most anything in the US then there's
PageNOW! for Mac OS
which is AppleScriptable and handles the following:
Protocol
Via
Supported By
HTTP*
(via XML
Plug-Ins)
TCP
All paging/phone/messaging services that
provide a web page where you can send a text
message. (XML based Plug-ins for major
services provided)
SMTP*
(e-mail)
TCP
All services that provide email addresses for
their accounts (ie,
email@hidden)
SNPP*
TCP
AirTouch, Metrocall, Nextel, PageMart,
SkyTel, Verizon
TAP
(IXO/PET)
Modem
All North American paging companies, most
international ones
UCP
Modem
Various European services
EMI
Modem
Various European services
Citiruf
Modem
Citiruf (Germany)
DTMF
(numeric)
Modem
(DTMF)
Use touch-tone dialing (DTMF via your
modem) to send a numeric page
Speech*
Speaker
Uses PlainTalk to "speak" text of a message
via Mac speaker
Bryan Kaufman
email@hidden wrote:
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In a message dated 7/1/01 12:48:01 AM, Raz C Niculita wrote:
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>Hi everybody.
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>I would like to write an script that sends a text message to my cellular
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>phone. I have tried to use "on handling CGI request" but it doesn't work.
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>Do you have any ideas on how to do it?
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>Thanks,
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>Raz
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No ideas on how to actually do it, but I have 3 thoughts on how to approach
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it.
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1) It's "handle CGI request" (not handling). I don't know if that was a typo
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for the email or if your code is mistyped.
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2) Unless you have already figured out the nuts and bolts of how to transmit
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a text message to a cell phone, I wouldn't even attempt to do it thru a CGI.
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They are tedious and tricky to debug. You'll be much more efficient hashing
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it out in your EOC (Editor Of Choice) first, then converting to a CGI when
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you've got good working code.
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3) What protocol/guidelines do you have to work with? If your computer needs
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to dial out to the cell phone, you need to make sure the modem isn't tied up.
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Jeff Baumann
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email@hidden
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www.linkedresources.com
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