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From: ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Dialing in to your computer
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Date: 12 Jan 90 16:30:50 GMT
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In article <1990Jan9.181120.2598@aucs.uucp> 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay) writes:
>I want to write a program so that I can phone my
>computer from anywhere and enter key sequences on a touch-tone phone.  Of
>course I want the computer to be able to recognize what keys are being 
>pressed.

As someone already mentioned, most modems are not capable of this.
However, I saw a posting from someone else wanting to do this sort of
thing.  I think it was in sci.electronics or rec.dcom.telecom, but I
can't find it now.  Anyway, a company called TELTONE makes a device
which plugs into a phone line, and has an RS232 port.  As I remember,
it could send and receive DTMF (touch-tone) signals as commanded by
the RS232 port.  I don't remember what other things it could do, but
at the time it sounded pretty neat.  It was just a few weeks ago that
I saw it.  Good luck.

-hans


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