Re: HylaFAX as a Pager?

[Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>]

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Julie Schwan wrote:

[snip]
> My question is, what can HylaFAX do to interface my C++/C paging
> program to the actual modem/phone?  I have the GUI (graphical
> user interface) with it's alarm message, I have a program that
> reads this alarm message and stores it in some kind of dynamic
> file, I have another program which sends this message to an
> alphanumeric pager via our Rolm phone line, and then I have
> to have another program that can receive a pager call to shut
> off the alarm remotely.  This is all still very much in the
> design phase, but I want to make sure I'm going about this in
> the right way before designing something for the wrong paging
> software.  And that is what I intended to use HylaFAX for:
> to receive alarm messages, process them, and send them to the
> modem with an embedded message for the alphanumeric pager.
> Can it be done?

Yes. :-)

If I understand you correctly, all you need to do is to get your
`alarm-reader' to invoke sendpage(1); and HylaFAX will take care of
the rest.
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