On Friday 25 July 2003 12:08 am, Peter Clark wrote: > I > remember one clever program that counted the number and timing of rings. > E.g., if you called your number, let it ring twice, hang up, and then call > within a minute or so and let it ring once before hanging up, it would then > set pppd in motion. I fotgot this program's name, but it's probably no > longer supported (it was fairly long in the tooth two years ago). Just remembered the name: xringd. Something like this has an advantage over mgetty in situations where there's no modem to dial in from, or where creating new access numbers (for instance, in Windows dial-up networking) is restricted. Any other such programs, or is that about the range of options? :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive! _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list