Program to call you at home

[mab at AIDS-UNIX.ARPA]

From:  Mike Brzustowicz <mab at AIDS-UNIX.ARPA>

System III had a program called 'ct' for call terminal.  Basically, after
reserving a dialer, it hangs up the line it is on (the hangup can be
suppressed by an option), dials the number and spawns a login process on the
data line associated with the dialer.  On 4.1 (and probably 4.2), you might
be able to simulate this with a shell script using 'call' (which calls a
nunber from a dialing unit with no special action) and running /etc/getty on
the data line that corresponds to the dialer. (remember to add a delay for
you to hang up with and also remember to ignore hangup signals.)

-Mike
<mab at aids-unix>