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Phoning from a computer
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12/06/2006 14:06:22
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01128382
Message ID:
01128490
Views:
23
>Hello Grady,
>
>You can Dial a computers modem by sending the ATDT command string to the
>appropriate COM port. This will dial your phone, not on the internet. This
>site has its own gateway (computer with modem) dialing the number or maybe many gateways for different area codes.
>
>You should be able to run their service programatically usings the examples they supply if thats what you want, the easiest of the methods listed is the HTTP GET but all look VFP compatible with tweaking.
>
>Bob
>
>
>>>Is there a way to have a VFP app dial a number? (on the internet preferably)
>>>The plan is to have the app dial out and then play a recorded message and then move to the next flagged record in a table so that a secretary doesnt have to do the job.

>>>
>>>Sure. All you need is the right hardware and a couple of lines of code.
>>>
>>>I recently did this for one of my clients and I think he got his hardware from Televantage.
>>
>>
>>My Nephew wants me to do something along the lines of what the code of the url does, in FoxPro
>>
>>http://ws.cdyne.com/Notifyws/phonenotify.asmx?op=NotifyPhoneEnglishBasic

Will that work with an ADSL modem on a network?
I ain't skeert of nuttin eh?
Yikes! What was that?
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