km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) (03/13/90)
Has anyone patched the 3B1 phone manager, or written a standalone
phone program that allows:
1) speaker toggle : Toggles the speaker on or off for a voice
call in progress. Sort of half of a speaker phone, good if
you get put on hold.
2) demon dialing: Redials a busy number until it answers.
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Ken Mandelberg | km@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED
Emory University | {decvax,gatech}!emory!km UUCP
Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.bitnet NON-DOMAIN BITNET
Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: (404) 727-7963rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) (03/14/90)
In article <5131@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes: >phone program that allows: > >2) demon dialing: Redials a busy number until it answers. >-- >Ken Mandelberg | km@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED Demon dialing isn't really practical on the UNIX-PC internal dialer: the internal dialer does NOT have busy detect - you end up listening to 30 secs of the busy signal, then it times out (it assumes that you have picked up the handset by then, and releases the line) - in theory, a program could check if the handset was "off hook" when the dial(3) (or ioctl(2)) function returns after dialing: if the handset was still "on hook," the program could redial. But, as I said, the dialer doesn't have a busy tone detector, so it would keep your phone line busy for 30 second intervals at whatever time period you were retrying the number.