On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 09:18:46AM -0500, Troy Settle wrote: > > > Chris, > > There's no way to do this with just the pipeline. Putting a modem into the > linux machine is probably your best bet. If you get a voice modem, you can > use vgetty and some fancy scripting to get a menu system that will allow you > do perform various tasks via telephone, including initiating a connection > that will cause your pipeline to connect. > Yes, OK, I have vgetty/mgetty on the Linux box so can go from there. > If you need access to your home system from work, I'd suggest that you leave > the conneciton up 24/7, though this might not be ideal where you're at. > It's not a thing that I have to have, just something that would be nice to have. Keeping the connection up 24/7 is not possible as, although my connection is un-metered there's an automatic cut off after two hours and I might well get kicked up altogether if tried to keep it up all the time. Thanks for all your help everyone. -- Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk) Home: chris at isbd.co.uk Work: cgreen at bcs.org.uk WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/ ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq>