1VBOXPUTTY(8)                System Manager's Manual               VBOXPUTTY(8)
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NAME

6       vboxputty - a self-dialing/-calling vboxgetty
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SYNOPSIS

9       vboxputty -d device [-f config-file] [-c phonenumber] [-s ring-timeout]
10       [-w wait] [-t redial] [-r redial-pause]
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12       vboxputty [-hv]
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DESCRIPTION

15       vboxputty is a vboxgetty, not waiting for, but triggering a call. After
16       connect,  vboxputty  is acting exactly like vboxgetty.  vboxputty exits
17       with 0 if a connection was established, 99 on BUSY.
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OPTIONS

20       -h     display a short help
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22       -v     display the version information
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24       -f config-file
25              use config-file instead of the default vboxgetty.conf
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27       -d device
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31              the phonenumber to be called
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34              vboxputty will dial the phonenumber and wait  ring-timeout  sec‐
35              onds  for  the  called party to accept the call, if ring-timeout
36              seconds are ellapsed before connect, vboxputty will hangup.
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39              after the connection is established, vboxputty  will  wait  wait
40              seconds before starting the tcl-script
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43              if  the called party is BUSY, vboxputty will try redial times to
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FILES

50       /usr/local/vbox/etc/vboxgetty.conf
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AUTHOR

53       Gerrit Pape <pape@innominate.de>
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SEE ALSO

56       the vbox-documentation
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624th Berkeley Distribution      13. January 2000                   VBOXPUTTY(8)
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