fredex wrote:
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
That's a good suggestion....I'll check it out.
Thanks. :-)
Don
