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Re: Phone dialer for Linux



On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:16:26AM +0000, Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:46:38PM -0500, David P James wrote:
> > On February 11, 2004 12:41, John Hasler wrote:
> > 
> > Right... but what I'm looking for is just a way to pass a phone number 
> > as a command line parameter so that I can then pick up the telephone 
> > handset and start chatting away with the person or answering machine on 
> > the other end. My understanding of PPP is that it will then attempt to 
> > make a connection with a remote machine, something I do not want to do.
> > 
> 
> man chat., atdp<phone number>
> 
This probably allows piping in or including in the script some
festival reading of text files, thus allowing communication for speach
impaired people. 



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