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        Linux SMS Client 2.0.7k by (c) 1997,1998 Angelo Masci
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A simple UNIX client Allowing you to send SMS messages to mobile phones 
and pagers. The software currently supports a number of providers
and protocols:

  +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | Service         Protocol      Notes                                  |
  +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | CELLNET         TAP           Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  | DETEMOBIL       TAP           Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  | AZCOM           TAP           Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  | TELSTRA         TAP           Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  | VODAFONE        proprietary                                          |
  | ORANGE          proprietary   Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  |                               Includes Hutchinson Pagers             |
  | PAGEONE         proprietary   Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  | MINICALL        PAGEONE       Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  | ONE2ONE         proprietary   Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  | VODAPAGE        proprietary   Block Mode supported                   |
  | VODACOM         proprietary                                          |
  | PTT/KPN Telcom  proprietary   Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  | ANSWER          proprietary                                          |
  | MTN             proprietary                                          |
  | LIBERTEL        proprietary   Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  | TIM             proprietary   Supports multiple sends (see NOTE)     |
  | PROXIMUS        proprietary                                          |
  | AMPI            TAP                                                  |
  | EUROPOLITAN     CIMD          Currently in ALPHA and testing         |
  +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
  |                 SNPP*         Currently in ALPHA and testing         |
  |                 GENERIC*      Currently in ALPHA and testing         |
  +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Using an unlisted provider that allow TAP access should be quite straight 
forward. 

There are a large number of services that do not appear to use TAP
but instead simple user interfaces for interactive use by a user dialing up
with a modem. For several UK based services such as these I have written
drivers, note that providers often offer more that one service and as such 
you may require a different driver for each one.

NOTE - Services supporting 'multiple sends' allow the same message to
       be sent to several recipients with only a single connection 
       having to be established, saving the cost of addition connection
       charges.

       It should be noted that ORANGE although allowing multiple
       sends does seem to limit them to a maximum of 3 messages per
       connection. Likewise, PTT/KPN Telcom has a limit of 2 messages
       per connection.

NOTE - Protocols marked '*' are using ALPHA version drivers.
       SNPP support is limited as we don't currently have any SNPP
       servers to connect to other than 'snppd'. The GENERIC driver
       uses a script to connect to either modem based or tcp/ip based
       servers, it's still early days for this driver but is
       interesting to play with. 


SMS Client 2.0.7 can use the optional libmodem package written by 
Riccardo Facchetti. Prior to version 2.0.7 this package was a requirement
to build and use the SMS Client. You can obtain it from sunsite.unc.edu in 
/pub/Linux/libs/ as libmodem-1.0.0.tar.gz 

If you use the libmodem package it is recommended that you obtain and 
install the libmodem-1.0.0.patch as this fixes an annoying bug in 
libmodem-1.0.0 that causes intermitent connection problems. SMS Client 
will still work without this patch but the reliability of several drivers 
will be compromised.

NOTE - libmodem-1.1.tar.gz is a NEW release and it appears
       to be causing problems with SMS Client. Until these problems
       have been resolved please continue to use libmodem-1.0.0.tar.gz

       If you have difficulties finding libmodem-1.0.0 go to the
       WWW site hosting sms_client. Several WWW Addresses can be 
       found at the end of this document.



To build the sms_client binary on Linux/Solaris:

        sh configure.sh
	make ; make install


NOTE - To build the sms_client binary under on a different Operating 
       System copy the appropriate 'Makefile.config.OS' file from the 
       config directory along with 'Makefile', rename the 
       'Makefile.config.OS' to 'Makefile.config' edit if necessary
       and run 'make ; make install'



Example using the SMS Client:

        sms-client [SERVICE:]XXXXXXXX "Test Message 1" "Test Message 2" ...
                       |         |         |
                       |         |         +-- The message you
                       |         |             want to send
                       |         |             Maximum 150 Characters
                       |         |                  
                       |         +------------ Mobile or Pager ID
                       |                       
                       |                       For mobiles this is usually
                       |                       the telephone number. In
                       |                       international format.
                       |                       ie. For UK Numbers remove leading
                       |                       0 and add 44 prefix
                       |
                       +---------------------- Optional SERVICE name


You can use a simple address book file called sms_addressbook 
This is your global resource file, it should contain the name of
your default service and possibly commonly used numbers. See the 
sms_addressbook file for examples. Any user can also create a local 
version of this file which should be placed in their home directory as 
.sms_addressbook The names are searched for in the user's local resource 
file and and finally the global resource file, this is so a user can 
override global names.

The sms/sms_services file contains a list of services and the protocols
that should be used when sending a message via that service.

Each service must have a corresponding SERVICE file in sms/services, 
this file instructs the software which settings to use for the specified 
service, the service centre number to dial and additional comms parameters.
A number of these service files exist and can be found in the sms/services 
directory.



Configuring Drivers:
You may want of modify the number of services that are supported
by sms_client, you can do this simply by editing Makefile.config
and adding or removing drivers from the DRIVERS line. You must then
rebuild and install the sms_client binary. To obtain a list of drivers 
currently built into your binary simply type:

	sms_client -d



Writing Drivers:
This is much more straight forward than you may think. Take a look
at src/driver/skeleton.c for an example driver.



Return Values:
On error sms_client WILL return some useful error codes so that you can
determine what went wrong. For each message sent you receive output
in the form:

	[ERROR] SERVICE:NUMBER "MESSAGE"

The ERROR is set to 000 for successful delivery any positive value
indicates there was a problem in delivery. See sms_error.h for description
of values.

If all messages were delivered successfully then sms_client returns 0
any other value indcates one or more delivery problems occurred.



Contributions:
A New 'contrib' directory has been added which contains some useful
scripts, at the moment we have:

	mail2sms  (Andy Hawkins)    - perl script for forwarding E-Mail via sms.
	www       (David Usherwood) - WWW Frontend

NOTE - These scripts were written for sms_client-2.0.5 and may not work
       correctly with this version as I have not tested them.



Credits:
I would like to express my thanks to the following individuals for
their help in testing, hardware, debugging, support and general 
feedback:

	Mike Casella		<[e-mail]>
	Guy William Hayton 	<[e-mail]>
	David Hill		<[e-mail]>
	Chris Voce		<[e-mail]>
	Frans Andersson 	<[e-mail]>
	Jonathan M. Hunter	<[e-mail]>
	Geoff Peacock		<[e-mail]>
	Harald Milz		<[e-mail]>
	Job J. van Gorkum	<[e-mail]>
	Nick Andrew		<[e-mail]>
	Jon Laughton 		<[e-mail]>


	Contrib Credits:

	Forward queries concerning 'mail2sms' perl script
	to the author:

		Andy Hawkins	<[e-mail]>

	Forward queries concerning 'mail2sms' shell script
	to the author:

		Matt Foster 	<[e-mail]>

	Forward queries concerning 'smsweb' 
	to the author:

		David Usherwood <[e-mail]>


	Driver Credits:

	Forward queries concerning VODACOM and MTN  
	to the author:

		Alf Stockton 	<[e-mail]>

	Forward queries concerning VODAPAGE 'verbose'
	to the author:

		Neil A. Hillard	<[e-mail]>

	Forward queries concerning LIBERTEL
	to the authors:

		Henk Wevers 	<[e-mail]>
		Aart Koelewijn 	<[e-mail]>

	Forward queries concerning TIM
	to the author:

		Massimo Nuvoli  <[e-mail]>

	Forward queries concerning PROXIMUS
	to the author:

		Mario Brackeva 	<[e-mail]>

	Forward queries concerning AZCOM
	to the contributor:

		Brad Smith	<[e-mail]>

	Forward queries concerning TELSTRA
	to the contributor:

		Paul Gampe 	<[e-mail]>

	Forward queries concerning PTT
	to the contributor:

		Harold Baur	<[e-mail]>

	Forward queries concerning ANSWER
	to the contributor:
		
		Paul Andrew 	<[e-mail]>



Contact information:
This Software is still considered BETA release. If you have any comments,
problems, patches and improvements, please contact the author:

		Angelo Masci	<[e-mail]>


WWW Sites:

	http://www.styx.demon.co.uk/
	http://smsclient.home.ml.org/
	http://line0.uwic.ac.uk/~ac0412/sms_client/


Mailing List:
'Mark Lewis' has kindly set up a mailing list for SMS Client. 
If you would like to join, send and email to '[e-mail]'
with the following text in the body of the message:
	
	subscribe sms_client

Mark can be contacted via email at [e-mail]