[solved] How to dial numbers with laptop modem (analogue)?

[Kukulkan]

Hi,

I have to create a tool that dials numbers by using the laptop modem. Not phoning or data transmission, just dial a long list of numbers to my telephone system (to program it, RS232 interface is sadly out of order).

Idea:
* Pick up
* Dial about 200-300 numbers
* Drop

Is this something that can be done easily or is it a huge problem?

My Laptop has a dialup modem recognized and Hyperterminal works. But it is not what I need. I simply need to let it dial long numbers from a document that I can edit...

Kukulkan

[EDIT]Maybe by using AT codes or such?[/EDIT]

[TI-994A]

I have to create a tool that dials numbers by using the laptop modem. Not phoning or data transmission, just dial a long list of numbers to my telephone system (to program it, RS232 interface is sadly out of order)...

Hi Kukulkan. On WinXP and earlier, there's a built-in phone dialler utility that detects any installed modems, and it can be programmed using TAPI functions; for example:

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tapiRequestMakeCall_("55551234", #NULL$, #NULL$, #NULL$)

Alternatively, if you could determine the virtual COM port that has been assigned to the laptop's built-in modem, you could also use PureBasic's OpenSerialPort() function to access it, and then use the WriteSerialPortXXX() functions to send the modem commands, ATH1, ATDT, ATH0, etc., directly.

Hope it helps.

[Kukulkan]

Hi,

thank you, the Serial way seems to be good for me. So I can use standard AT calls to let the modem dial numbers.

Great!

Kukulkan

[PB]

I'm pretty sure I used to do this over a decade ago with Visual Basic,
but I can't for the life of me remember how. I think it was to do with
sending serial commands as mentioned above. It's definitely possible.
I think I was opening "COM1:" or something at the time. Google it.

[Kukulkan]

Thanks. Yes, I did it with AT commands using serial port communication. Works fine for me!

Kukulkan