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Dos someone know of a simple phone dialer I can use to paste in a phone number, and dial it? It's a lazy habit I got into using Dos, and Windows.
Sonshyne5

% cu 8004269400

(might be too simple)

Well, simple is good. But maybe I'm too simple to understand your reply. Is "cu" a dialer? and what does "%" mean? What would be the syntax to actually7 place a call? I guess the place to start is the terminal window??

I know that from DOS it is possible to issue a command (although I've forgotten what it is) that will cause the phone to dial, so I guess it should be possible from a terminal window, but I don't know how.

Thanks, thehoghunter.

Sonshyne5

% is the prompt in a csh.
If you are using sh or ksh, it would be $.

cu is a command - run it from a terminal window.

Read the man page on cu for further info.

$ man cu
or
% man cu

I guess "csh" and "ksh" and "sh" are shells, or command interpreters. My unit is running "bash", and when I give the "cu" command I get an error that says:
"bash: cu: command not found"
I note reference on some web sites to changing the shell, but I haven't figured out how to do it yet, or where to get a shell that contains the "cu" command, or even if it's a good idea. I'm running Suse 8.1 kernel 2.4.19
Sonshyne5

Only a very few commands are built into a shell. Most commands are programs which are installed in various directories. Switching shells isn't going to help you. And bash is a nice shell anyway.

On linux, it looks like the equivalent of cu is called minicom. And minicom is not a shell builtin. The command "which minicom" returns /usr/bin/minicom for me (on Redhat Linux).

So see if you have a minicom command. A good place to start would be to try:
man minicom

I have never used minicom so I won't be able to help you with it.

Check out Kall - a phone dialer for kde - this may be what you were looking for.