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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 1996 15:07:15 PST
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Anyone in PAC*Bell land with a ZyXEL?
Message-ID:  <96Jan23.150720pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>

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I was particularly bored last night so I wrote a shell script that
uses zplay (from mgetty+sendfax) to pay my phone bill automatically
using Pay*By*Phone.  (I was going to sign up for the "Automatic payment
service" but the computer was never working and it would probably
pay the full amount immediately, instead of waiting as late as
possible).

This way, I can have the computer pay all three phone bills, automatically,
the day that I get paid.  Via cron.  Oh, will the geekiness never cease?

In any case, I'd be glad to send out the shell script (it still needs at
least a little bit of tweaking...) to anyone else who wants to have their
computer pay their phone bill.  I have only tested it on a ZyXEL but
theoretically it will work on any voice-capable modem.

  Bill



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