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Date:      Tue, 04 Jul 2000 04:10:57 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        bow <bow@bow.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Monitoring modem for dialing 
Message-ID:  <200007041110.EAA02396@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:12:09 PDT." <20000703001208.A87793@bow.net> 

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> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction on how
> to monitor my modem to capture dialing.
> 
> Basically I have an extra cordless phone around the house, and I wanted
> to know if it was possible to hook it into my modem and then have an
> application monitor the modem for dialing, then do something depending
> on what was dialed... To give an example, I'm running xmms to listen to
> music. It'd be cool if I could just pick up the cordless phone, and press
> the #1 key (on the phone) to jump to the next song, or the #2 key to pause.
> 
> I haven't a clue where to start! :)
> 
> Is it even possible?

Not if you want to receive incoming calls, no. 8)

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