Subj : Port answering utility
To   : Sean Dennis
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Jul 06 2020 12:53 pm

  Re: Port answering utility
  By: Sean Dennis to All on Mon Jul 06 2020 11:58:00


 SD> Does anyone know of a utility that will answer a specified
 SD> port (in my case port 10123), display a text message, and
 SD> then disconnect the port?  I finally got around to getting
 SD> all of my events running correctly in Maximus/2 and because
 SD> the BBS shuts down all nodes to run the event, I just wanted
 SD> a little program that will show a text file to tell the
 SD> caller to call back at a later time.

i used to use Telix on the DOS side of my OS/2... fired it up with a SALT 
script...

one of the tasks was to grab the session data from my USR Couriers...

another task was to answer when the BBS and mailer were down... one should be 
able to strip a lot of unneeded stuff out of the HOST or maybe even just write 
a simple one...

loop waiting for RING...
answer...
transmit ASCII message... don't even worry about ANSI/ASCII capabilities...
terminate the call after a few seconds to ensure the text is sent...
return to top of loop...



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