[oclug][OT] Standing on the shoulders of giants

[Brian's Linux Box]

I've been working on a small bash script and have it working pretty much the
way I want it now.  My wife's Win98 machine runs 24x7 and acts as our
answering machine.  (Hey it's a Winmodem anyway!) After receiving an
incoming message, it sets off my numeric pager to indicate a new message is
there.  The problem was when I was out of town or on the road I would have
to call long distance or use the cell phone just to find out it was a
hang-up, or otherwise not worth checking.  So, linux to the rescue...