Re: Nicest phone, feature wise, like xemacs vs. notepad?

[Kester Clegg <kester@cs.york.ac.uk>]

ignoramus13341@NOSPAM.13341.invalid (Igor13341) writes:

> Alternatively, is there a linux based NICE phone utility or emacs mode or
> something that could help me with dialiing and would understand caller id
> and so on (with the right modem)?

Well, there is something that does *something* along those lines, I
think from someone at Sun, in bbdb mode.  Maybe you can steal the code
or something?  From the bbdb manual:

M-d (bbdb-dial) If you are on a machine with the ability to play sounds,
    this command will play the appropriate tones on the builtin speaker
    to dial the phone number corresponding to the current line. If the
    point is at the beginning of a record, dial the first phone
    number. This does not dial the extension. This also does not dial
    the area code if it is the same as bbdb-default-area-code, unless a
    prefix argument is given.

    The BBDB comes configured to play sounds on machines running
    Solaris. If you are on another type of machine, you must set
    bbdb-sound-player to a string containing the name of the audio file
    player on your machine. You must also set bbdb-sound-files to a
    vector of arguments to be passed to the program indicated by
    bbdb-sound-player. bbdb-sound-player will be called with the first
    element of bbdb-sound-files for the digit `0', the second for `1',
    the third for `2', and so on.

    bbdb-dial-local-prefix Set this to a string of digits if your phone
    system requires you to dial some code to access an outside line.

    bbdb-dial-long-distance-prefix Set this to a string of digits if
    your phone system requires you to dial some code before dialing a
    long-distance number (one not in your local area code.)

Hope this helps.
k.

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