Mgetty/Vgetty Voice Call Routing

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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Gert Doering wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 10:38:42PM +0100, Roman Payreder wrote:
> > Is Mgetty/Vgetty able to route voice calls based on DTMF Tones?
> 
> Only if you have some hardware that can do that (route calls), and which
> can be controlled from the PC.  For that application, one would write a
> voice shell script, that will then call "something" to route the call.

If the "something" is a PBX, it should be pretty easy. With most PBXes and
modems, dialing eg. ATX3DT!42; forwards the call to extension 42. If you
have plenty of time or a modem with reliable busy tone detection, you can
even check for a busy extension and offer a voice mail function. If the
PBX has extensive logging capabilities, you can keep track of busy
extensions, etc.

By "plenty of time" I mean that busy tone detection can be implemented in
software. I did it once a long time ago, before I was aware of the
existence of vgetty. If the vgetty people are interested, I can dig up the
code doing that.