OT serial device "building blocks"

[fredex]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Don Russell wrote:
> I have googled for this but am not finding anything suitable...
> 
> I have an old modem (actually  modem component with a serial interface) 
> that I want to use to monitor an analog phone line.
> 
> I was hoping I could find some code like a "black box" that I can send 
> commands (AT...) to, and it would give me the responses, and any 
> asynchronous mesages, such as the RING message etc.
> 
> Part of the problem is this little gizmo sends some data as ascii 
> characters, other data is sent as binary. (FSK data for things like the 
> caller id info, VMWI etc.)
> 
> I would like to use Perl, or C, but was hoping I wouldn't have to 
> re-invent the wheel to do the basic serial communications?
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions, or good serial comms references you 
> can point me to?
> 
> Thanks,
> Don

It might be possible to hack up something using ckermit. Kermit has
a fairly powerful programming language, obtuse though it may be.
Check out the kermit web pages at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
for lots of documentation. I'd think you've probably already got
kermit on your box, or at least on the CDROMs, though I haven't
personally checked FCx for its presence, it is present on RHEL.

Fred
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