From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 14 16:56:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA22385 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA22379 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA08197; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:56:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:56:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Robert Clark cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Qpage, Tpage, Hylafax or Kermit. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Robert Clark wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know what "standard" AT&T's MessageFlash > software uses to send alphanumeric pages into its dialup system? > > The service is digital PCS based if that makes any difference. > > I'm running BigBrother on a 2.2.2 system, and would like to enable > it to send alpha pages to me when the network chokes the cosmic > chicken, but AT&T can't seem to figure out what standard they use. Qpage stuffs messages to those just fine, once you RTFM and figure out you have to dial the 888 number to page to the PCS stuff. The protocol is the TAP protocol, so Qpage, Tpage, Hylafax, or Sendpage should work fine, though I recommend Qpage, because it's the easiest, as Hylafax wants to do a lot more than just paging, and the other two haven't been submitted to the ports collection yet, that I'm aware of.