Dialing through a modem

[Kiti]

Is there any way to send a phone number from a cell in Excel to the phone modem, so it will dial it?

Edited June 17, 2008 by Kiti

[TurionAltec]

People aren't generally receptive to posts labels "for pros only"

For a simple way:

First play around at the command prompt:

start->run->cmd

echo ATDT 5551212>com2

Where com2 is your modem port

To hang up

echo ATH0 >com2

google 'modem AT commands' to find other parameters to change such as shutting off the speaker, make sure you don't get any modem tones, etc.

#include <Process.au3>
 _RunDos("echo atdt 5551212>com2")
sleep(5000)
 _RunDos("echo ath0>com2")

[Kiti]

People aren't generally receptive to posts labels "for pros only"

For a simple way:

First play around at the command prompt:

start->run->cmd

echo ATDT 5551212>com2

Where com2 is your modem port

To hang up

echo ATH0 >com2

google 'modem AT commands' to find other parameters to change such as shutting off the speaker, make sure you don't get any modem tones, etc.

#include <Process.au3>
 _RunDos("echo atdt 5551212>com2")
sleep(5000)
 _RunDos("echo ath0>com2")

Thanks a lot

I thought dialing through a modem is a very hard and complicate thing, because my father wanted to pay someone to do this, and I thought I could do it myself in AutoIt, but I also thought it's something very complicate involving an UDF with hundreds of lines of code and hard to understand functions. Tomorrow he'll bring me a modem so I'll be able to start testing.