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From: car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: How to detect phone ring?
Message-ID: <545@trux.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 91 13:49:43 GMT
Organization: Central Cartage, Sterling Hgts., MI
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I'd like to write a daemon that simply logs when the telephone line rings.

I can handle the part that opens a file and writes out the date. :-)

But how do I detect or receive a signal that the phone line is ringing?

car.
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Christopher A. Rende           Central Cartage (Nixdorf/Pyramid/SysVR2/BSD4.3)
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