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Phone was originally written by:
Jack Bonn
Software Labs, Ltd.
Box 451
Easton, CT 06612
jack@swlabs.UUCP
Substantial modifications were made by Mark Keating (markk@censor.UUCP).
A summary of his mods follow, culled from his article <447@censor.UUCP>
in alt.sources of 28-Mar-89:
Phone now negotiates with each end to determine whether
the callee is already in a conversation, if so a message
is returned to the caller saying that the line is busy,
also a message is put up of the callee's status line who
last tried calling (sort of a call waiting). This eliminated
the problems with phone going out to lunch when a third
caller tried to get in on the conversation.
Added in an option to specify the tty port for when a user
is logged on more than once.
Added in one of those silly little clocks that keeps reminding
you what time it is while your busy yakkity-yakkin on the phone.
Fixed up some minor annoyances where phone would leave the tty
in a somewhat insane state and also didn't cleanly disconnect
when the connection couldn't be made.
Minor modifications by Karl Lehenbauer (karl@sugar.hackercorp.com).
A summary of his (my) changes follow:
Made the specification of the user's tty name work properly,
also removed the need for the "-t" argument, a two-argument
command assumed to be "phone user" and a three-argument
command "phone user tty."
Made the "foo is phoning you" message list both command
options (i.e. phone user with and without tty name)
Added elapsed minutes spent "on the phone" to the top status
line to go along with the date and time.
Made the usage remarks include descriptions of the commands
available once a connection has been established.
Cleaned up the man page.
Created the README file.