Phone dialling application ?

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:31 AM, John French <cjf at tow.org.uk> wrote:
> Something which I miss with Linux is an application to dial my phone
> calls. (OK, it's not really an Ubuntu question, but you are the most
> helpful bunch of guys I know.)
>
> With my old Windows system, I had Lotus Organizer, and used it as an
> address book. If I clicked on an entry, one more click would dial that
> phone number, using the old hardware modem. This had the advantage of
> dialling any length of number correctly - which I can't guarantee to
> do!  I have tried to run Organizer under Wine without success.   (Maybe
> a newer version would work.) Is there a Linux app which can do this, or
> something similar ?

I could see an application doing that - but the trick would be getting
it into whatever you are using as an address book right?  If it's a
separate program by the time you copy and paste it out of your address
book into the dialing program it wouldn't be worth it anymore I think.
 Which address book are you using?

Brian

PS - chat -v -s '' 'ATZ' < /dev/modem > /dev/modem *might* work as a
stand alone program - haven't got one to test