DOS ain't dead - Modem Dialer for DOS

Modem Dialer for DOS (Users)

posted by Arjay, 10.02.2013, 14:23
(edited by Arjay on 10.02.2013, 14:44)

> > Does anyone know a good such utility to be found for DOS
> Yes, there are (were) lots of programs to do this.
> PC Magazine certainly wrote a few
I revisited this today. Oddly try as I might I could NOT track down/re-locate PCMag's version (even via the Buried Software Utilities in the Simtel and 'pcmag' Archives by Dr. W. Curtiss Priest which is an amazing list.

I did however relocate:

AT1 .ZIP 672 20/06/90 Send Hayes AT commands to modem 34 \COMFILES\ AT10 .ZIP 11311 17/06/89 send modem commands from DOS level 34 \COMFILES\
ATSEND .ZIP 11982 06/07/89 Send AT commands to modem from DOS cmd line
34 \COMFILES\

source: http://cd.textfiles.com/microhaus/mhblackbox2/MHAUS/FLMMASTE.LST

all of which can both be downloaded from:
http://cd.textfiles.com/microhaus/mhblackbox2/COMFILES/

The first util is I believe the one that I remember which I am sure I have seen with asm source (it's not long...) and the second and third ones are different versions of the same thing which are shareware (for some reason!).

It's also worth point out that you can of course do echo ATD123 >COM1 if you've set the port up via mode, e.g. mode com1:9600,n,8,1 - you will of course run into good old Int 24h with a Abort, Retry, Fail? - there are numerous ways to knock that out and an easy introduced in later versions of MSDOS was to use COMMAND.COM's /F parameter, e.g. COMMAND /F /C ECHO ATD123 >COM1 so you may already have what you need without other utils. Example:

@echo off rem set serial port speed mode com1:9600,n,8,1 rem set S10 register to max value command /F /C echo ATS10=255 rem attempt to tone dial 123 "blind" and ignore errors command /F /C echo ATD123 >COM1

Something like the above may do what you want without any extra utils. It should work but I'll be honest and say that I haven't tested it as I'm writing this from memory having written a lot of similar in the past before I later moved onto other ways to do this for situations that I needed ages ago (unreleased internal projects). Indeed the last thing I did with a modem was to use one as a call logger. It's been a while since I've used a modem to dial out which I find shocking considering I used to use and hear modems all the time (ex-BBS sysop).

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Modem Dialer for DOS - Tito, 09.02.2013, 19:19 (Users)
- Modem Dialer for DOS - Arjay, 09.02.2013, 22:17
  - Modem Dialer for DOS - Arjay, 10.02.2013, 14:23
    - Modem Dialer for DOS - Tito, 11.02.2013, 07:07
      - Modem Dialer for DOS - jassenna, 12.02.2013, 03:49
        Modem Dialer for DOS - glennmcc, 12.02.2013, 05:42
        Modem Dialer for DOS - Tito, 14.02.2013, 04:29
        Modem Dialer for DOS - jassenna, 22.02.2013, 06:13