Re: help about smsreader option

[Benjamin Chodroff]

Eh, the software is good but I'll agree the public relations are a bit
lacking :)

I'm just another user who happens to have poked around the smsreader
code. I'll try to help.
I believe the text messages from --smsreader are saved somewhere in
/tmp if I remember correctly. Let me know if I'm off on that.

To answer your question about why ./gnokii --smsreader > somefile
isn't working, it's because nearly all that output is not stdout but
rather stderror. The ">" character only redirects stdout by default -
to record std_error, try:
gnokii --smsreader 2>&1 somefile

This will combine both stderror and stdout into one file, but you'll
have a bunch of junk to sort through to get your text.

If you really want to do it right, I would check out the smsd
application in gnokii. It can save text messages to a specified file
or database.

Hope that gets you started.
Ben


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Marco Gmail <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi.
> I told you you what I want to do:
>
> I need gnokii to wait for an incoming sms and save it to a txt.
>
>
> I told you I don't know how to use the --smsreader option and that I'm new
> to gnokii.
> What's your problem?
> It looks to me that my question was simple, but...
> What should I write in the terminal to make gnokii read incoming sms and
> write them in a file called "samp.txt"?
> I tried with gnokii --smsreader > "samp.txt"
> but nothing was written on the file and no sms was deleted from the phone
> when an sms arrived.
> As soon as the guide says
>
> smsreader keeps reading incoming SMS and saves them into the mailbox.
>
> For each SMS: read, print on stdout and delete from phone.
>
> and nothing of this happens I think I'm doing something wrong.
> smsreader doesn't accept any parameter and I don't know what to do.
>
> Any polite answer or request for more information is well accepted.
>
> I'm using latest gnokii build for windows xp.
> My phone is a nokia 6021 connected via bluetooth.
> the getsms and deletesms options work well!
>
>
> Pawel Kot ha scritto:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 15:06, Marco Gmail <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> I was looking for a forum but didn't find it :(
>
>
> We don't use a forum and do not intend to.
>
>
>
> Anyway, I would like to use the --smsreader option but I don't know how it
> works.
>
>
> And what you exactly want to know?
>
>
>
> I need gnokii to wait for an incoming sms and save it to a txt.
>
>
> smsreader does thing loke this.
>
>
>
> It looks like smsreader option does something like that, but I don't know to
> do it.
>
>
> What don't you know?
>
>
>
> Can you help me, please?
>
>
> No, you didn't ask any question that we could answer.
>
> pkot
>
>
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