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Re: Sending messages to pagers.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cbbrowne@news.brownes.org (Christo)
Sun Jul 6 10:27:31 1997
To: sapr3-soft@MIT.EDU
Date: 6 Jul 1997 10:17:21 -0400
From: cbbrowne@news.brownes.org (Christopher B. Browne) (by way of SAP Moderator <cbbrowne@news.brownes.org>)
On 5 Jul 1997 09:04:38 -0400, Chris Burton <caburton@ozemail.com> posted:
><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><bigger>Organization: OzEmail Ltd -
>Australia
Using HTML in news is not terribly friendly to most news readers.
You may be using a buggy/obsolete version of Netscape Navigator. That's
the only news reader that I am aware of that inserts some HTML tags into
news message in ways that represent neither news nor proper HTML.
>We currently have a requirement to send messages directly from SAP R/3 to
>a pager. Does anyone know of a PC/Unix package, or R/3 solution that
>would assist/provide a solution.
There are quite a number of UNIX-based pager systems. I've got several
referenced on my web page:
<http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/unix.html#PAGING>
There is a standardized protocol for talking to alphanumeric pagers,
assortedly known as IXO or TAP. Software is available for a variety
of platforms.
You'll likely find it easier to automate transmissions coming out of
R/3 by using a UNIX-based package, and:
a) Have the relevant R/3 events drop the message (and routing info)
into a file in a standard location
b) Raise a "SEND_PAGE" event
c) Define a SEND_PAGE job to be initiated by the "SEND_PAGE" event
to run a shell script that runs an appropriate UNIX shell script
to send the message.
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