RE: {bb} 3rd party alpha paging tools

["Krintila, Jeff" <JeffKrintila@mcc.net>]

What a bunch of gobbledigook (page on TAP protocol). My god, paging in the 21st century is doomed! ;-)

The thought of writing a kermit script to handle that and then TESTING/TESTING/TESTING (pronounced FRUSTRATION) is just ugly.

Don't suppose I could bribe you into sharing this ALPHAPAGECMD program?

J

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Travis McWaters [SMTP:travism@nortelnetworks.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 26, 1999 6:31 AM
> To:	'bb@taex001.tamu.edu'
> Subject:	{bb} 3rd party alpha paging tools
> 
> >    Not the problem. Apparently, you have to dial a different
> > number to activate alpha paging. When you do, it uses the
> > ATP? TAP? (whatever) protocol to actually send the page.
> > I would write a kermit script modification for this, but I have
> > no idea where to get information on this protocol. Does anyone
> > out there have ANY experience with this stuff?
> 
> Qpage wouldn't be a bad choice.  This could replace
> your kermit script.  You can find them at
> http://www.qpage.org/
> 
> I'm not actually using it, but I have a similar setup
> with another (non-free) paging program where I have
> some fairly trivial customizations to bb-page.sh
> that more or less read as follows:
> [around line 125 of bb-page.sh]
>         alpha-* )       # echo "ALPHA PAGING"
> 
>                         set `echo $page | sed "s/-/ /"`
>                         NUMBER=$2
> 
>                         # TravisM customization
>                         $ALPHAPAGECMD $2 "Big Brother says: $BBALPHA"
>                         # end TravisM customization
>                         ;;
> 
> Then I put a define in bbdef.sh that sets $ALPHAPAGECMD
> to run my paging program.  I will warn you that my
> $ALPHAPAGECMD had to include some command line options
> to tell it what service provider to use.  Since everybody
> here carries pagers from the same service provider, it wasn't
> a problem to hard-code this.  If that's not the case where
> you are, you could add some extra tags in bb-page.sh like
> "alpha1" and "alpha2" for the different service providers.
> 
> -- Travis McWaters
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