TCL?

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Hi,

Russell Nelson wrote:
> Is there any enthusiasm for am mgetty that is controlled by TCL?  For

No.

> TCL also lets you do all sorts of interesting things with the vgetty
> answering machine.  For example, I hate transcribing phone numbers.
> So, I'd start my message off with "Please enter your phone number
> followed by pound".  Then I'd record the DTMF digits so that when I
> wanted to call them back, the modem could do the dialing.

That could easily be done by shell, perl, whatever scripts in one of the
vgetty auxiliary programs. Zplay can do it all...

> TCL doesn't make mgetty that much bigger.  modgetty (which uses TCL but
> whose record is broken) is only about 40K bigger including the shared
> TCL library.

... mgetty can do more than modgetty by now, and if modgetty is *still*
40K larger, it's not a good sign... 

I'm not so keen on having to rely on yet another package for mgetty
operations (Chris L., does that sound familiar??) - after all, one of the
big benefits of mgetty compared to the other packages is portability
(Chris Lewis grinning again... ;-) ) - and the gains of TCL are - IMHO -
not worth the effort of changing the complete internal structure of mgetty
to be able to use it...

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-3243328                         gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de