Re: flexfax: My first pager attempt

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de wrote:

>     I now wish to send a message:
>     
>     "sendpage -n -p raoul 1234567".
>     
>     I expect this to send a numeric page to my pager. Instead, the modem
>     picks up, gets the voice message, waits for a while, then
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> what does the "voice" tell the modem and do both handshake
> a modem protocol, e.g. V.22 or something else?

[ Ahh, so nice to hear from the man himself! ]

The voice says "type in your desired number on the keypad, then
hang up or hit #".

>     hangs up. It eventually repeats until it declares the message dead, and
>     reports back saying the line is busy.
>     
>     Is there something obvious? Or should I start posting logs?
> 
> first try to get the modem and the remote side connected
> and once they are CONNECT'ed check the log for the low-level
> IXO/TAP protocol;

I'm not getting to the point of modem tones.

I'm also talking to the company about posting details of getting
this stuff working with HylaFAX. Since this is the el-cheapo
system that Radio Shack is selling, I figure it could generate
some real broad-based HylaFAX interest in servers...

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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