$Id: README,v 1.4 1995/08/28 05:20:41 maf Exp $

The alpha 5 release of sendpage is available on ftp.net.ohio-state.edu
/pub/pagers/sendpage4a.tar.gz

sendpage is a front end to the PET protocol used by many paging systems.
PET is also knows as IXO or TAP.

Features:

    Disk based message queue
        Each message is first queue'd to disk, and then picked up 
        for delivery.  Failed deliveries are retried.  A list queue
        option is included. 

    Built in aliases support.
        Aliases can be of the form
        xxx	yyy              : simple "xxx" expands to "yyy"
		xxx yyy zzz          : list   "xxx" exands to "yyy" "zzz"
		xxx /etc/operator    : file   "xxx" expands to contents of /etc/operator
        xxx /etc/operator:y  : file with default.  if can't get contents of
                               /etc/operator, default to y
        xxx |/etc/schedule   : pipe   "xxx" expands to output of /etc/schedule
        xxx |/etc/schedule:y : pipe with default.  if can't get output of
                               /etc/schedule, default to y
        Nesting of aliases also works.

    Multiple pages can be sent per phone call to paging central.
        So if a page is sent to "x" and "y", and both "x" and "y" are 
        resolve to the same paging central, only one phone call will be
        made to send the page.

    Built in Modem dialer

    Works with sendmail
        Adding a few lines to your sendmail.cf will allow an e-mail interface
        to sendpage.  Instructions included to implement "alias@page.xxx.edu"
        or "id.pagingcentral@page.xxx.edu" style interface.

	E-mail notification
		A mail message is sent on all successful pages, and on the first
		failure.

    Speaks the PET protocol
        Implemented from "Programmers Guide To Paging Data Interface Modules"
        by Motorola (12/88).

    Written in C.


--
mark
maf+@osu.edu

