From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 12:30:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B52D37B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from choplifter.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@choplifter.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.143]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id PAA06150; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:30:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by choplifter.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id PAA01295; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:30:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:30:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@choplifter.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Tom Parquette Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alphanumeric paging software? In-Reply-To: <39F479F0.247FFA02@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Tom Parquette wrote: > Please CC me on any replys. Thanks... > > I'm looking for software that will run under FreeBSD to can dial out > into alphanumeric paging companies and send alphanumeric pages to > Motorola pagers. e.g. Advisor, Advisor Elite. > > Is anybody aware of any software that will do this? > Cheers... The way I've always heard it done was to attach a modem and write a shell script to call whenever x event occurs and send y message. I've not needed to do it, but I've always thought that would be cool. It's one of those things that let's you know you're a power user! Having your computer call you. :) Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message