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Help Using Modem & CLI

    07-Nov-93 12:36:48
Sb: Help Using Modem & CLI
Fm: Frank Fagan 71554,303
To: All
I'd like to be able to access my modem with the standard hayes command set from the CLI. In IBM DOS the command would go: ECHO ATDT5550000 >COM1: This would dial the phone # 555-0000 by using the modem on COM1. The reason I would like it might prove worth while to others. I plan to get a simple burglar alarm with a motion detector and a lamp module that automatically comes on when the motion detector senses something. Rather than a lamp I plan to plug my Amiga power supply into it. Then while I am away from home on vacation I can have the computer automatically start if the house is broken into. My Amiga will boot up and run the CLI dialing command which will call me where I am vacationing. However, to get this all to work I need to be able to access the serial port via CLI. I tried a similar command as in the IBM example (substituting SER: for COM1: but it didn't work).