Hello,
I'd like my computer to call up one of those automated voice business
information systems, then execute some transactions by entering my user
account information and make some selections from the menu. I'll need
to execute this task repetitively while I'm away from home.
I tried writing a chatscript, but my modem hangs up, presumably because
there's no handshake on the other end (I hear the automated voice on
the other end after answering, then after about 10 seconds my modem
hangs up). I see chat is intended for use with pppd, and I didn't see
any options to disable the handshake expectation.
---chatscript---
ABORT BUSY
ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
"" ATDT777-7777 (phone no.)
"" \d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d (more than enough time to answer)
"" \d\d\d\d\d999999#\c (hear dialogue, enter user info
followed by #)
[..never gets past the initial dialogue, my end hangs up after 10 s..]
So, I read the serial, net-3, isp, and other howto's, but I think all
the methods employed also presume a handshake (must be implicit, it's
never discussed). Then I looked at mgetty and minicom, but didn't see
any way to disable the handshake expectation there either. No
debugging info to see since there's no handshake ..
Reluctantly, I tried my hand at the shell builtin "echo" command,
but for some reason I don't seem to be able to get the phone number to
dial, although my modem clicks. I realize this method is inferior
because there is no locking of the device, but that's actually less of
a concern than aborting on no dialtone, because I would like it to be
able to stop redialing by leaving myself a voicemail which yields a
stutter dialtone and aborts if I have ABORT "NO DIALTONE" set in my
chatscript.
---commands as they may appear in a shell script file---
echo "ATDT777-7777" > /dev/modem
sleep 10
echo -c "999999#" > /dev/modem
[..never dials the phone number, just clicks once..]
Finally, I looked in my Linux books, but nothing obvious there either.
Anyone have a suggestion? I know I must be missing something..
David
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