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From: mi@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pager program
Date: 5 Jan 1996 15:09:49 GMT
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In article <4cbl71$8rh@ender.techcenter.paccar.com>,
fletcher@techcenter.paccar.com (Arlen Fletcher) writes:
>In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.951223141104.9303B-100000@elaine32.Stanford.EDU>,
>extant@elaine32.Stanford.EDU says...
>>> If you intend to use a real pager, you can use hylafax, i think it has a
>>> module to call real pagers ...
>>
>>Oh I meant a real pager. As in a beeper by Motorola or AT&T.
>>
>
>Have you tried tpage? I don't know if it's been ported to FreeBSD
>or not but it might be worth looking at.
>
Hylafax's program name is sendpage:
SENDPAGE(1) SENDPAGE(1)
NAME
sendpage - submit a pager job for transmission
SYNOPSIS
sendpage [ options ] [ message... ]
DESCRIPTION
sendpage submits a pager transmission request to a HylaFAX
facsimile server. A request is normally processed immedi-
ately, although it may also be queued for transmission at
..... Install Hylafax and read the rest ....(great software)....
-mi