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.TH VBOXPUTTY 8 "13. January 2000"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
vboxputty \- a self-dialing/-calling vboxgetty
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B vboxputty 
.B "\-d"
.IR device
.RB [ "\-f"
.IR config-file ]
.RB [ "\-c"
.IR phonenumber ]
.RB [ "\-s"
.IR ring-timeout ]
.RB [ "\-w"
.IR wait ]
.RB [ "\-t"
.IR redial ]
.RB [ "\-r"
.IR redial-pause ]
.LP
.B vboxputty 
.RB [\- "hv" ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I vboxputty
is a vboxgetty, not waiting for, but triggering a call. After
connect, vboxputty is acting exactly like vboxgetty.
.I vboxputty
exits with 0 if a connection was established, 99 on BUSY.
.LP
.SH OPTIONS
.IP -h
display a short help
.IP -v
display the version information
.IP "-f config-file"
use
.I config-file
instead of the default vboxgetty.conf
.IP "-d device"
use
.I device
(/dev/ttyI*) for dialout
.IP "-c phonenumber"
the phonenumber to be called
.IP "-s ring-timeout"
vboxputty will dial the 
.I phonenumber
and wait
.I ring-timeout
seconds for the called party to accept the call, if
.I ring-timeout
seconds are ellapsed before connect, vboxputty will hangup.
.IP "-w wait"
after the connection is established, vboxputty will wait
.I wait
seconds before starting the tcl-script
.IP "-t redial"
if the called party is BUSY, vboxputty will try
.I redial
times to get a connect
.IP "-r redial-pause"
vboxputty waits
.I redial-pause
seconds between BUSY-redials
.SH FILES
.I /usr/local/vbox/etc/vboxgetty.conf
.SH AUTHOR
Gerrit Pape <pape@innominate.de>
.LP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.B
the vbox-documentation