pc & phone

[arnas]

hello everybody!
I have some ideas to turn my PC into telephone. I am going to connect PC to switch through
phone. can I do it via serial port? could anybody share
information or sample code about that? I am going to use
TAPILine OCX control v.1, maybe there are another free control, better than this one? or maybe I can manage without any control and directly use TAPI dll library?

any answer will be appreciated!
Arnas

[gwdash]

if you want to control a remote device via the PC, ie a switch, it's tricky

First, you may risk damage to your PC, i would recomend a digital output board, but there around $200. You can do it directly via the parrell port. In QBASIC there are Inp and Out Fucntions. VB dosn't have them. You can get a dll with the function in it. don't have the url, do a search. get the Hex adress of your Parrell Port from the system Control Panel (usualy 3BC hex) then to send a signal to the second pin(first data bit) write binary 1, the third pin is binary 10, both is 11, you need a good understanding of binary, but for the first pin go Out(1), second-Out(2), third-Out(4), etc. first and second-out(3). For more help, or if this dosen't make sence, post here