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Old 01-09-2008, 03:47 PM   #1
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Modem dialing out and playing audio file


hello,

Does anyone know of a way with ubuntu to set a cron (actually at) to use the dial-up modem to direct dial a voice line and play sometype of an audio file?

- Jim
 
Old 01-09-2008, 04:04 PM   #2
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You could try minicom using a minicom startup script. Here are the minicom man pages.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/minicom

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