<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Some years ago using SCO Unix I made this work quite well using Wyse terminals. It was used by a collection agency and each terminal had a modem that would dial the phone locally and then release so the collector could talk. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Rod Caddy - Pro-Set Systems<div>Sent from my Galaxy S®III </div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Nancy Palmquist <Nancy.Palmquist@vss3.com> </div><div>Date:05/22/2014 2:27 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: filepro-list@lists.celestial.com </div><div>Subject: Re: filePro connect to phone line and dial a voice line </div><div><br></div>You guys are way out in left field with the auto dial stuff.<br><br>He wants to dial the phone number attached to an apartment in his database.<br><br>filepro had a feature for this in the very early versions. I saw it <br>work. AIX might be a platform where it will still work.<br><br>I know it does not work in Windows since Windows3, at least I never <br>could get it to work.<br><br>It requires access to the com port or the modem port. If you can send <br>signals to the modem and had the phone hooked up to the modem in the <br>other jack they usually provided in that version of modem it might happen.<br><br>You have way to many variables to make this something someone could give <br>you help with on the list.<br><br>I do remember the command was OUTS "str"<br>Definition says: Sends characters to a serial port. Requires that the <br>PFOUTS environment variable be set.<br>PFOUTS = port, baud, wordlen, parity, stopbit<br><br>UNIX would require something like: tty1a, 9600,8,n,1 and then with a <br>Hayes modem you could set a dialing code ATDT[phonenumber]<br><br>Probably need much more and the right hardware but maybe it is doable.<br><br>Nancy<br><br><br>On 5/22/2014 11:47 AM, Fairlight wrote:<br>> I've seen documents which say it applies to speed dial...which I think<br>> carries it a bit far.<br>><br>> But taking the speed dial thing out of it... Depends how you define<br>> sequential number generator. If you mean generating 6105551212,<br>> 6105551213, etc., then no, probably not. If you mean generate a list of<br>> numbers sequentially for auto-dialing, as retrieved from a database, then<br>> yes.<br>><br>> Welcome to the wonderful world of legalese and ambiguously written legal<br>> language. They manage to be both too explicit and too broad in the same<br>> stroke.<br>><br>> Key thing, though...is if you're on auto-dialing, I believe you are<br>> obligated to honour the state and federal do not call lists. I leave it as<br>> an exercise to the implementor to make sure they're compliant.<br>><br>> m-><br>><br>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:32:08AM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:<br>>> On 5/22/2014 11:10 AM, Fairlight wrote:<br>>>> My suggestion is to check the actual laws. If you hit even one mobile<br>>>> phone this way, it's illegal.<br>>>><br>>>> http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/policy/TCPA-Rules.pdf<br>>>><br>>>> That's a good starting point. There are additional state laws in many<br>>>> jurisdictions.<br>>> Question:<br>>><br>>> 47 USC 227(a)(1)(A)<br>>><br>>> [The term "automatic telephone dialing system" means...]<br>>><br>>> to store or produce telephone numbers to be called, using a random<br>>> or sequential number generator<br>>><br>>> Does manually bringing up a record on a computer screen and clicking<br>>> "dial" fall under the definition of "automatic telephone dialing<br>>> system", as prohibited in 227(b)(1)(A)?<br>>><br>>> IANAL, but my thinking would be "no, it's no different than using a<br>>> phone's 'speed dial' feature".<br>>><br>>>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:30:38AM -0400, daN baueR thus spoke:<br>>>>> You were complaining about it being too quiet. I've got a question/project.<br>>>>><br>>>>> The server in question is an old IBM running AIX with a very old<br>>>>> version of filePro and Facetwin on a few old PC's. The application in<br>>>>> question is a very simple flat file that contains names and phone<br>>>>> numbers for all the residents of two apartment buildings. They'd like<br>>>>> to be able to pull up an apartment check the name hit a button/key and<br>>>>> have the phone number automatically dialed by the computer. I have<br>>>>> basically no access to the server. I understand this could be done<br>>>>> with Anzio and a simple modem in each PC but I haven't gotten<br>>>>> permission or access for that. Any other suggestions? Thanks in<br>>>>> advance for your assistance.<br>>> -- <br>>> Kenneth Brody<br>>><br><br>-- <br>Nancy Palmquist<br>Owner<br>Virtual Software Systems - www.vss3.com<br>(412) 835-9417<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Filepro-list mailing list<br>Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br>http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list<br></body>