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Re: Paging (Beeper) Software for SCO Unix

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From: W. van Beek
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 15:24
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mshallop@ncc1701d.sco.com (Micheal Shallop) writes:

>In article <3ar2ia$1437@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>, leroy@ee.ryerson.ca (Leroy Dougherty) writes:
>|> Hiya,
>|> 
>|> Does anyone know of any paing software for SCO Unix?  I'm looking for
>|> a utility (Freeware/Shareware/Proprietary/Anything) which uses a
>|> modem to send out pages to a beeper. (alphanumeric or touch-tone) I
>|> talked to SCO Canada but their referrals all turned out to be dead
>|> ends. 
>|> 
>|> Also, where can I find the latest sources to "tpage" by Tom
>|> Limoncelli?  The version I found was from 1992. (perhaps this is the
>|> latest?)  Has anyone successfully ported this to SCO?

>In the March/April, 1994 issue of SysAdmin, on page 71, there was an excellent
>article on using UUCP as an early-warning system to your pager...I followed
>the scripts and successfully installed a similar system with modifications
>customized to my site.  The ftp site for the source is ftp.uu.net...look for
>../published/sysadmin/1994...look for that month's issue under this directory.

>Hope this helps!

>==============================================================================
>Micheal Shallop                                               mshallop@sco.com
>Technical Support Engineer                               ...uunet!sco!mshallop
>The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.                             Fax: (408) 427-5443

Ask at compaq, they have a complete package. Sorry I do not know the name 
sounds like compaq-utils.

There you find a pager-option.

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