The computerised phone book?

[Sparda]

Just a crazy surrgestion which i have alredy started some work on but have got stuck on alredy. The idea is to use a computer with a modem to dial phone numbers, while it dials the phone number you pick up the phone, once it's finished dialing it hangs up leaving you on the line. I have alredy started looking into this, i'm thinking that command line control over a dialup connection would be nice, then using FreeSSHd I send the computer a command to change the phone number of the dialup connection, dial it then disconnect it. Does any one have any idea of how to control a windows dialup connection with out using the windows GUI?

[Sparda]

I worked out how to dial a connection ^^

Now i need to work out how to change the phone number of the connection.

rasdial "<connection name>"

Is how to dial an exsisting connection.

[Sparda]

w00t!

Now i'v worked out how to get it to dial diffrent phone numbers!

rasdial "<connection name>" /phone:<phone number>

Now i need to work out how to automatadly script this over SSH, probably would be easy in Perl, but I don't know Perl into any depth. Any one got any ideas on this one?

[Sparda]

Better idea! Telnet, use FreeSSHd's Telnet server insted of SSH, it's over my local network, so a secure connection isn't paticulaly esential, would be nice though.

[Sparda]

PRoblem Encountered! (Don't mind me, i'm just using this as a place to speak my mind):

Over telnet the connection is not easy to droped, the connection only drops after the time out period (way too long), looking into solution.

[tabath]

Can I ask why your doing this? 8)

[Sparda]

So insted of having to dial the phone number while looking at it on the screen, I can run a script (though two clicks) and have it dial my most commonly used phone numbers.

[Sparda]

I think the way to get it to stop dialing is to send it the

rasdial "<connection name>" /disconnect

command in another telnet session, obviusly after the phone number has been dialed.

[melodic]

nice little thread dedicated to sparda :P

haha its TomB :P

[Shaun]

You need to send ATDT then the number to the com port the modem is on to dial. You can hangup by sending ATH. It's pretty simple to write a program to send something to a com port

[Sparda]

I think the way to get it to stop dialing is to send it the

rasdial "<connection name>" /disconnect

command in another telnet session, obviusly after the phone number has been dialed.

Didn't work.

[Shaun]

I wrote this which seems to work:

#include <fstream>

#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;



int main ( int argc, char* argv[] )

{

    ofstream modem;



    modem.open ( "COM3" );



    modem << "ATDT" << argv[1] << endl;

    modem.flush ();

    Sleep ( 5000 );

    modem << "ATHn";

    modem.flush ();

    modem.close ();



    return 0;

}

It takes the telephone number as it's first argument. You mgiht wanna stick some validation and stuff it there. It dials, waits 5 seconds then hangs up, my modem takes about 1.5 seconds to start dialing so I put quite a long wait to allow for long numbers.

[Darren Kitchen]

I dont follow what it is your trying to do. Are you trying to write a wardial program?

[Sparda]

There is no reaon it couldn't be used for that, but basicly i'm trying to ilimiate the need to dial a phone number manualy.

[jce108]

Sounds like a cool project and helps me become even lasier than i already am

[Darren Kitchen]

wasnt this feature built into windows back in 95? i remember a program that interfaced with address book called dial or something that would use your modem to dial the number, then you would just pick up the handset.

[VilleValoV]

There are a ton of programs that allready do this..

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/icon-dial-phone.html