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:confused:
% 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.
Perderabo and Hoghunter, Thanks. It appears that I have niether Minicom or Kall now on my computer, but I've got something to look for.
Sonshyne5
Hi,
I think you are a unix starter. You seem to miss some info. It's ok, but we might be able to help you a bit more.
Depended on what Unix/Linux version you work with applications might be on your systembox or not. Linux (especialy Red Hat) is mostly full equiped and has lots of "tools"already installed.
By typing the command (applikation) from a shell box the shell start searching internal (like commands cd, etc) and else in you PATH variable. You can see where it starts searching doing the follwoing :
echo $PATH
This will display the contents of your PATH variable, and therefor your search-path for commands. You can add commands to this using (ksh/bash/sh)
export PATH=$PATH:/new/path/to/add
For finding a command you know it's on your system just type :
find / -name <name of program> -print
The minus print option might be optional in some OS-types. In this case you will find the executables full-patch and can start it f.e. as :
/usr/local/bin/cu <number to dial>
Also adding it to the machine search path can help :
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
cu <number to dial>
Best Regs David
Your right I am new to Linux. I'm using Suse 8.1
The "find" command entered as you suggest returns an error "find: invalid predicate `-cu'"
Sonshyne5
It's
find / -name cu -print
not
find / -cu -print