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VBOXPUTTY(8)							  VBOXPUTTY(8)

NAME
       vboxputty - a self-dialing/-calling vboxgetty

SYNOPSIS
       vboxputty -d device [-f config-file] [-c phonenumber] [-s ring-timeout]
       [-w wait] [-t redial] [-r redial-pause]

       vboxputty [-hv]

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

OPTIONS
       -h     display a short help

       -v     display the version information

       -f config-file
	      use config-file instead of the default vboxgetty.conf

       -d device
	      use device (/dev/ttyI*) for dialout

       -c phonenumber
	      the phonenumber to be called

       -s ring-timeout
	      vboxputty will dial the phonenumber and wait  ring-timeout  sec‐
	      onds  for	 the  called party to accept the call, if ring-timeout
	      seconds are ellapsed before connect, vboxputty will hangup.

       -w wait
	      after the connection is established, vboxputty  will  wait  wait
	      seconds before starting the tcl-script

       -t redial
	      if  the called party is BUSY, vboxputty will try redial times to
	      get a connect

       -r redial-pause
	      vboxputty waits redial-pause seconds between BUSY-redials

FILES
       /usr/local/vbox/etc/vboxgetty.conf

AUTHOR
       Gerrit Pape <pape@innominate.de>

SEE ALSO
       the vbox-documentation

4th Berkeley Distribution      13. January 2000			  VBOXPUTTY(8)

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