Re: Dialing via a modem
Re: Dialing via a modem
- Subject: Re: Dialing via a modem
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:52:32 -0800
On 1/11/02 10:19 AM, "Doug McNutt" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 19:23 -0600 1/10/02, Dale Saukerson wrote:
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> I want to dial phone numbers from within documents (usually web pages).
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I'd like to second the request. I spent enough time to know that there was no
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way I was going to make it happen in AppleScript. I have been looking at
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writing an MPW tool for the purpose but I have to learn what happened to .aout
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and .bout first and a tool won't help folks who don't choose run their
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machines from MPW.
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I understand that visual basic (Excel to me) allows one to "OPEN COM1"
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followed by "PRINT ATDT5551212" and get to a modem which somehow understands a
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machine with zero serial ports. I haven't tried it.
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I have also looked at scripting FAXstf, which I sometimes use, but got
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nowhere.
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As far as I know the control panel DialAssist knows nothing about
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AppleScripting.
There's a free, scriptable utility called "Acid Jazz" which will dial a
number for you. But I seem to recall some timing problems people had with
dial tones and suchlike.
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Paul Berkowitz