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NAME
ant-phone - an interactive ISDN telephone application
SYNOPSIS
ant-phone [options]
DESCRIPTION
ant-phone is part of ANT (ANT is Not a Telephone). It let's you make
and receive telephone calls and talk via sound devices. It uses
ISDN4Linux ttyI devices.
OPTIONS
ant-phone accepts the following options:
-h, --help
Show summary of options
-v, --version
Print version information
-r, --cleanup
Remove stale socket file left by accident by a previous run of
ANT. You only need this option if ANT says: "local bind: Address
already in use"
-d, --debug[=debuglevel]
Print additional runtime debugging data to stdout, debuglevel =
1..2
-i, --soundin=device
OSS compatible device for input (recording), default: /dev/dsp
-o, --soundout=device
OSS compatible device for output (playback), default: /dev/dsp
-m, --msn=msn
identifying MSN (for outgoing calls), 0 for master MSN of this
termination/port, default: 0
-l, --msns=msns
MSNs to listen on, semicolon-separated list or '*', default: *
-c, --call=number
Make a running instance of ANT make a call to the specified num-
ber, useful for calling from an external address book applica-
tion
NOTES
If the used sound devices (arguments of --soundin and --soundout) are
equal, a full duplex sound device is needed.
FILES
~/.ant-phone/history
the last dialed numbers
~/.ant-phone/options
user specific options file
~/.ant-phone/callerid
saved history of incoming and outgoing calls
BUGS
The GTK+ main loop consumes all the system CPU time. This is due to the
Linux kernel select() call consuming the time while waiting for a
completed data block. This only appears with some Linux kernel OSS
drivers, not with ALSA.
AUTHORS
ANT was developed by Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>, based on ideas
from IVCALL, Copyright 2002 Lennart Poettering. G.711 handling by Sun
Microsystems. Contributions by Joerg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de>, Lars
Volkhardt <Lars.Volkhardt@uni-konstanz.de>.
Version 0.1.0 27 April 2003 ant-phone(1)
