[comp.sys.att] Unix-PC phone driver help

mrh@drutx.ATT.COM (Mike Hudson) (09/15/88)

I have a question for all Unix-PC phone driver gurus.
I would like to be able to use the "touch-tones" from the
keyboard after a call has been dialed and connected.
Regular "touch-tone" phones make the number tones at
any time during a call.  I would like to emulate this with
the Unix-PC, but cannot figure out how to get the phone(7)
ioctl's to do it.  Has anyone done this?  Can anyone
help me with the problem?
Post to the net, or reply to me directly.  Thanks

Mike Hudson
AT&T Bell Labs
Denver, CO 80234
...!att!drutx!mrh
303-538-5190

ned@legendre.ACA.MCC.COM (Ned Nowotny) (09/28/88)

In article <8695@drutx.ATT.COM> mrh@drutx.ATT.COM (Mike Hudson) writes:
>
>I have a question for all Unix-PC phone driver gurus.
>I would like to be able to use the "touch-tones" from the
>keyboard after a call has been dialed and connected.
>Regular "touch-tone" phones make the number tones at
>any time during a call.  I would like to emulate this with
>the Unix-PC, but cannot figure out how to get the phone(7)
>ioctl's to do it.

The funny (?) thing is that the 3.0 version of the 3B1 phone
manager software did allow you to dial additional numbers after
connecting.  However, in version 3.5 of the software, some
bright person decided to "fix" this.  I would have preferred
a more constructive use of the programmer's time.

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Ned Nowotny (ned@mcc.com or {ihnp4,seismo,ucb-vax,gatech}!cs.utexas.edu!pp!ned)