On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Don Russell wrote: > I have googled for this but am not finding anything suitable... > > I have an old modem (actually modem component with a serial interface) > that I want to use to monitor an analog phone line. > > I was hoping I could find some code like a "black box" that I can send > commands (AT...) to, and it would give me the responses, and any > asynchronous mesages, such as the RING message etc. > > Part of the problem is this little gizmo sends some data as ascii > characters, other data is sent as binary. (FSK data for things like the > caller id info, VMWI etc.) > > I would like to use Perl, or C, but was hoping I wouldn't have to > re-invent the wheel to do the basic serial communications? > > Does anybody have any suggestions, or good serial comms references you > can point me to? > > Thanks, > Don It might be possible to hack up something using ckermit. Kermit has a fairly powerful programming language, obtuse though it may be. Check out the kermit web pages at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ for lots of documentation. I'd think you've probably already got kermit on your box, or at least on the CDROMs, though I haven't personally checked FCx for its presence, it is present on RHEL. Fred -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------
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