windows dialer and access

[Kaspa]

Hello everyone,

I have a new job where I spend all days making phone calls :-(, I would
like to program access to recognize if an answer machine picks up, if
the phone is disconnected, out of service, etc. Is this possible at
all?. Anybody ever done something like that? is there a third party
application that does such thing? Any suggestion is greatly
appreciated.

kaspa

[Steve]

The phone service, at least in the US, sends tones over the line when
the called number is disconnected or out of service. Fax machines and
some answering machines do the same thing. You could check for those
tones and, if they exist, do whatever action you wish to perform.

Note that Access really isn't the best way to go for this. You might
want to investigate VB6 (standalone, not VBA), VB.NET, or C++. You
will need access to a modem port, so you're going to have to get down
and dirty with sometimes complicated programming at a lower layer than
Access usually works.

[Kaspa]

thank you Steve.