How to "Dial" Using Rev ?

[Douglas]

Hi Jaque,
Surely Gary must have a phone line and relatively old iMac with built-in 
modem, or at least a modem, or he wouldn't be wanting to use what he 
assumes to be a dial-up routine to an external device?

It's over 15 years since I did anything with at AT codes, but I can 
remember the pain of having to look them up every time I went to a 
service call where I didn't know the hardware.

AT is the required prefix to initiate any command.
The AT does not have to be repeated for each command and one string can 
contain many commands.
S7 is the number of seconds to wait for carrier signal when the other 
end answers
Ln is the Loudness of the modem speaker (usually 0-3)
DT is Dial using Tone

So in this case, the command is "ATS7=1L0DT" followed by the number and 
a Carriage Return
meaning :
Wait 1 second for carrier when the other end answers. (ie it must start 
quickly after picking up.)
Set speaker level to lowest.
Dial the number using Tones.

So, if you are reading this Gary:-
Please tell us what you are actually wanting to do and if you have a 
built-in or USB modem.
ie. Why do you want to use this routine, when you don't really know what 
it is?

Douglas

On 23/05/2010 05:48, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> gary_aitcheson wrote:
>>    put "*67" before theNumber
>>    open file "com3:" for write
>>    write "ATS7=1L0DT" & theNumber & cr to file "com3:"
>>    wait 5 secs
>>    close file "com3:"
>>
>> I do not understand much of this, but it appears that it's usual 
>> function is to dial a fax machine in order to transmit letters etc.
> I'm not sure what it's dialing, but what the script does is this, line 
> by line:
>
> prefix the phone number with "*67"
> open a connection to the "com3" port on the PC, which is a serial port 
> where presumably a modem is attached
> send the phone number digits and an end-of-line carriage return 
> through the serial port to the modem
> wait a bit for the modem to get the data and start dialing
> close the connection to the port
>>
>> My problem is that I want to use this dialing program on my iMac 
>> running OS X but unfortunately it does not function there.  I imagine 
>> the dialing code is similar, but figuring it out is beyond my 
>> expertise. Does anyone have any suggestions at to what to do, where 
>> to look, who to ask, etc ?
>
> The equivalent on a Mac would be identical, except instead of "com3" 
> you'd want to use "modem" as the port specifier. Both the PC "com3" 
> port and the Mac "modem" port are serial ports. Rev can write to those 
> just fine, but the problem you will find on your iMac is that it won't 
> have any serial ports; Macs haven't supported those for some years, 
> nor do they ship any longer with internal modems. You can buy USB 
> modems, but unfortunately Rev can't read or write to USB ports.
>
> So if you have an older Mac that has a real serial modem port, you can 
> dial with the above script by substituting "modem" for the port. But 
> on your iMac, no go.
>