Re: dialing phone numbers: plus automatic dialing from address books?




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From: ken@xxxxxxxxxx
To: debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: dialing phone numbers: plus automatic dialing from
address books?
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:24:27 -0400

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David Baron wrote:

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If you are running KDE4, check out my phone plasmoid (kde-apps,
kde-look).
This is fairly complete, call histories, quick-dials, local and
akonadi
contacts, etc. Designed for speakerphone modem. However, changing
the VLS
commandto VLS=0 (in phoneapplet.h) may have it work for regular
phone. If this
works, I'll put it in as an option.

As I am not running KDE4 (yet?) I cannot test this option. I would
however like a feature in an telecom application whereby selecting a
telephone number from an address book would cause the application to
dial that number to be used from an ordinary voice telephone. In
the
90s WordPerfect Office on DOS had such a feature which I found very
useful.

The feature would presumably have to give the user the option to
choose
between a voice call and a data call. For the former the modem
would
cut out once the voice phone is picked up; whereas for data calls
the
modem would stay on line to transmit the data.

A related question: I do not (yet?) use modems for data
transmission.
When I do I would want to use the same POTS line for both voice and
data
calls. Can modems now tell the difference between incoming voice
and
data calls, intercept and process the data calls and let the voice
calls
through to the POTS and so to a voice telephone?

Regards, Ken Heard

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I'll let someone else try the auto-dialing issue. With regards to
the shared data/POTS line, most ADSL installations frequency
multiplex the data and voice onto the same physical line. The voice
occupies the lowest spectrum and the data the upper spectrum. At the
user's ADSL interface there is a splitter that separates the two
signals. In essence neither signal is aware of the existance of the
other.
Larry

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