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From: hartley@uvm-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Hartley)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: need program to call me at home
Message-ID: <270@uvm-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Jul-84 13:56:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: uvm-cs.270
Posted: Tue Jul  3 13:56:40 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jul-84 01:32:52 EDT
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  Without much foresight, I ordered measured service from New England Telephone
when I moved to Burlington, Vermont, last summer.  After the first hour of
local calls each month, I have to pay a cent or two per minute.  Now that I have
a 1200 baud modem and terminal at home, it is easy to spend half an hour or so
per day calling my friendly VAX.  A little arithmetic tells me that soon I will
be paying much more than if I had ordered the unlimited service even though it
has a higher basic rate.
  I would like to know how I can have my friendly VAX, running 4.2 BSD, return
my calls.  Has anybody done this?  What I need, I guess, is a program that I
can invoke, then logout and hang up the phone.  This program will use our VAX's
autodial modem to call me at home.  When my modem answers, the program will
spawn a shell (or getty) for me.  Does anybody know the details of doing this?
Our VAX, fortunately, has unlimited telephone service!
-- 
"If that's true, then I'm the Pope!"		Stephen J. Hartley
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