pheww... using the modem to dial a phone number

Hello. I need to know how to access the modem through a program I write. What I need to do is make an object which will call a phone number through the modem in the computer... This would be all fine and dandy except for one thing... I don't have any idea about how to do it! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated and if someone out there has an object that does that... well... I wouldn't mind getting in touch with you!
Another thing: The idea is that the object can call a beeper or even send a SMS message to a GSM phone... now the SMS idea is stretcing it I know... I doubt that there is any "universal way" of sending a SMS message from a computer. At least you can't just call the phone. So... if anyone out there knows anything about this... his/her help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm gonna use Java for the project but this could also be written in any other language. Maybe a COM object would suit best???

Thanks a lot in advance!
Stebbi

p.s. I don't know which forum I should post this in so I'll post it in a few... hope you forgive me for that!

An elephant is a mouse with an operating system

This may not be of much help, but I recently begin looking into sending pages and voice messages for a modem. I decieded to use TAPI because it seemed like the easiest way to send voice out (over a voice modem). The problem I encounted though is that unless you are making a data/fax call, the modem cannot detect when the phone on the other end has been answered or hangs up. So I haven't got to the point of sending a page yet, but I am now looking at Telephony boards that do voice, answer/hangup detection.
If you would like to try, many TAPI samples can be found on the web. MSDN has a TAPI class implemented to simply dial the phone (it in C++ not Java) but it may be of some assistance.

Michael Penza
RailComm Incorporated

Thanks alot for your post... I'm not really sure about what you mean by telephony boards but I would imaginge that it's another word for a modem.
Please keep me informed... what you're doing sounds interesting.
One more question:
What do you mean by "sending pages"? What kind of pages are you sending? (are you talking about pages as in "I page you" or pages as in "pages of text"? Sorry about this but English is my second language.

An elephant is a mouse with an operating system

I actually have some code that does pretty much what you are looking for. respond to my real email address: [email protected] if you are interested, and I will try to package it up for you (if I can find it - it is on one of the computers in the house).
Lewis