Re: dialing phone numbers: plus automatic dialing from address books?
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>From: ken@heard.name
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: dialing phone numbers: plus automatic dialing from
>address books?
>Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:24:27 -0400
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>>David Baron wrote:
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>>> If you are running KDE4, check out my phone plasmoid (kde-apps,
>kde-look).
>>> This is fairly complete, call histories, quick-dials, local and
>akonadi
>>> contacts, etc. Designed for speakerphone modem. However, changing
>the VLS
>>> commandto VLS=0 (in phoneapplet.h) may have it work for regular
>phone. If this
>>> works, I'll put it in as an option.
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>>As I am not running KDE4 (yet?) I cannot test this option. I would
>>however like a feature in an telecom application whereby selecting a
>>telephone number from an address book would cause the application to
>>dial that number to be used from an ordinary voice telephone. In
>the
>>90s WordPerfect Office on DOS had such a feature which I found very
>useful.
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>>The feature would presumably have to give the user the option to
>choose
>>between a voice call and a data call. For the former the modem
>would
>>cut out once the voice phone is picked up; whereas for data calls
>the
>>modem would stay on line to transmit the data.
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>>A related question: I do not (yet?) use modems for data
>transmission.
>>When I do I would want to use the same POTS line for both voice and
>data
>>calls. Can modems now tell the difference between incoming voice
>and
>>data calls, intercept and process the data calls and let the voice
>calls
>>through to the POTS and so to a voice telephone?
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>>Regards, Ken Heard
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I'll let someone else try the auto-dialing issue. With regards to
the shared data/POTS line, most ADSL installations frequency
multiplex the data and voice onto the same physical line. The voice
occupies the lowest spectrum and the data the upper spectrum. At the
user's ADSL interface there is a splitter that separates the two
signals. In essence neither signal is aware of the existance of the
other.
Larry
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