[ale] Automated Phone Systems

[Ryan]

Anyone know of an easy way to automate connecting to 
Radio stations when they are giving things away? I 
am wondering if any quick and speedy single number 
war dialers exist :)

- Ryan

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 15:13, Joseph A. Knapka wrote:
> "Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> > 
> > I need to hit an automated phone system for a project I'm working on.
> > I just dial a number, wait 20 secs, hit option 2, option 4, enter some
> > more info all from the dial pad.
> > 
> > Is there a way to automate this from linux that anyone knows of?
> 
> Much to my regret, I have quite a bit of experience with this
> kind of thing.
> 
> If *all* you need to do is send DTMF to the whatsit on the
> other end of the phone line, then any Hayes-compatible modem
> is your friend. Get a cheap one and send it "ATDT" commands
> to dial the stuff you want, and set the connect timeout
> high enough that it doesn't care that it never connects.
> That's all easy to do.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -- Joe
> 
>   "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
>    sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
>    the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me
> 
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