Re: FN-FORUM Paging / Text Messaging to Mobile Phones

date posted 15th September 2000 14:30

I know there is a linux program for this, and that it accepts commandline
input, so I imagine if you are running on a colbalt server (or some other
linux based machine) you could do it with perl if you install the app:

$msg = $foo->param( "message" );
$number = $foo->param( "phone_no" );
$messenger_app = "/usr/bin/sms_msg";

$run = `$messenger_app, $number, $msg`;

I am sorry I am not sure of the exact syntax or method I generally deal
with text not binaries, however using the backticks "`" or a pipe "|" should
allow you to pass the message to the application. Don't use the example
:op it won't work in the least.

Hope this gives you some idea of a way to do it.

-Ben



At 14:45 15-09-2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I asked for help on this once before but it was a busy day on the forum so I
>didn't get much response.
>
>Does anyone know of an email address or some VBScript / JavaScript that will
>let me send a text message to an Orange mobile phone? Orange were no help
>at all, but there must be a way of doing it because Lycos let you do it for
>free.
>
>Regards,
>
>Pete Edbon
>
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