READDME -- General information about "tpage"
  by Tom Limoncelli, tal@warren.mentorg.com 
  Copyright (c) 1992, Tom Limoncelli
  The sources can be freely copied for non-commercial use only
  and only if the source is unmodified.

"tpage" or "Tom's Pager System" is a set of programs that let
you send messages to alpha-numeric pagers using the "IXO" protocol.
It supports a dialing directory, a "who's on duty now" schedule,
and can do special tricks with RFC822-format email.

The system has the following features:

...sends pages to any pager system that supports the IXO protocol.

...additional protocols can be added. (I'll write the touch-tone
      protocol soon).

...can parse email messages and extract the interesting info from
   them resulting in shorter messages.

...can copy it's input to stdout and therefore can be used as a "tee".

...maintains a directory of people's phone numbers/PINs.

...can page "the person on duty" (searches a schedule).

...schedule can have slots that are empty, but find someone anyway if
   the message is marked "urgent".

...with programs like procmail, permits you to send certain email
   messages to your pager.

...a list of modems can be given to the daemon.

How it works (and how all the programs fit together):

o  beep2.pl takes command-line and stdin, reads the schedule, looks
   up people's paging info in the directory, and queues the message.
o  tpaged.pl should always be running.  Every 30 seconds it wakes up
   to check the queue for messages.
o  tpaged.pl then sorts and batches the messages.
o  tpaged.pl then calls the appropriate program to do the protocol
   (currently that's ixocico but others can be written) and watches
   the output for messages:
   "#MESOK x" which means that message "x" was successful and can be
       deleted from the queue.
   "#MESREJECT x" which means that message "x" was rejected and should
       be deleted from the queue.  Email will be sent to the person
       that sent the page.
	Messages that can't be deleted from the queue (due to NFS problems
	   or whatever) are added to a "blacklist" in memory, and are not
	   retried.

For installation instructions, read INSTALL.
For program history, read HISTORY.

If you aren't using "procmail", you're working too hard.  Check
"archie" for a location near you!