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Comparison
Since there are a number of good alphanumeric paging packages available, I wanted to have a way to compare features and functionality. As a result, I threw together a quick marketing table, and included a bunch of qualities that I found to be important when looking for paging software.
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Beepage
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QPage
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Sendpage |
| Delivers pages via TAP over a modem |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Uses daemon for queue management |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Can utilize multiple modems |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Takes pages via SNPP |
No (uses TPP) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Maintainer's web site has a list of Paging Centrals |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Can deliver to separate paging centrals in parallel |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Sends Email CCs and status info |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Released under the GNU General Public License |
No (BSD) |
No |
Yes |
| Written in Perl for easy porting |
No |
No |
Yes |
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