Re: How to dial out & send message in METAL (WAZABOO)

[dj_lx1@earthlink.net (dj_lx)]

"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bs5k32$9told$1@ID-198131.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> You don't need to do the "#modem".  All that does is send the text ONLY to
> the modem, you won't see it on the screen.
> 
> ? "007"  <-- Sends to both modem and screen
> ? #modem,"007" <-- Sends only to the modem
> ? #vid,"007" <-- Sends only to the screen
> 
> Your problem might be that the pager needs a CRLF at the end...so do this:
> 
> ? "007";chr$(13);chr$(10);
> 
> The best thing to do is to dial in with ProTERM and do it manually to see
> what it requires.  Does it send a prompt before it will accept input?  If
> so, you'll have to program METAL to wait for the prompt before sending...
> You might also want to wait a couple of seconds after connection anyway just
> to let it stabilize before you try to send anything.
> 
> > then tried:
> >
> > ? #modem,"007"
> >
> > and it didn't work. I tried to do another "modem$=007" but it acted
> > like it wanted to dial out again. So the only thing missing is the
> > "pasting" the "007" code to the pager.




That didn't work either. I tried what you said. Tomorrow, I will try
to go from METAL launching ACOS, Dialing out, then launching back to
METAL. I know the ACOS
 mod I wrote works for sure. IT's been a learning experience, thanks!

Alexey