Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:27:12 -0500 (EST) From: Intuitive Design Archive <archive@in-design.com> To: Steve Willoughby <steve@ichips.intel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wanted/Offered: FreeBSD voice mail system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970304222500.1309A-100000@nero.in-design.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.970304175241.19693M-100000@ichips>
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On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Steve Willoughby wrote:
> I've noticed a number of FAX modems on the market now support a voice-mail
> system via Windows software (the software runs in the background on the Win
> box and stores voicemail on the hard drive (I guess), so when a voice call
> comes in, the caller gets the usual answering message played at them ("Press
> 1 to leave a message for John, 2 for Marsha," etc. and their digitized
> message is stored on the computer).
>
> Has anyone considered writing a BSD program to do the same thing, store
> voice mail on a FreeBSD box using one of these modems? I have an application
> where this would be very nice, but don't want to dedicate a Windows box when
> it could just be a daemon on Unix. Not to mention the utility of letting
> users retrieve their voice mail on any workstation on the net :)
>
> Anyway, if this is not planned or being worked on, I'm willing to volunteer to
> do the work myself and contribute the code to FreeBSD. Assuming I can get
> enough information from the modem companies to know the "special commands" to
> make the modem do those tricks.
>
> Let me know if there's any interest in this or if any other developers have
> hints on how to get technical specs out of modem companies.
>
This would be a god sent to those with desktop UNIX
workstations. I know slick SGI supports these things, but I dunno about
any other ones that do. Knowing Solaris' ambitions of being a bussiness
users friend, must have this as well. SO what is the word for Fbsd? I
still think that it is the best UN*X out there, and would love thise sort
of thing on my desktop workstation. :)
Tamer Ziady
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