Ad-Hoc

Ascii text files can be used to send messages to pagers by using their PIN (ID) numbers. This option is only available with a 5000 pager license or greater. The advantage of this feature is that a user account for each pager does not have to be setup in PageGate. Only a single Ad-Hoc recipient needs to be setup for each carrier. The disadvantage is that the sender must know the PIN (ID) numbers of the pagers (harder to remember than recipient names). Sending messages using Ad-Hoc is similar to sending Multi-Page messages. In PageGate's Admin program, create a recipient and set it as an Ad-Hoc recipient. The carrier information must be correct; it is used to set which carrier the messages are sent to. If 'ahu' were an Ad-Hoc recipient, this would be a sample text file to send Ad-Hoc messages:

ahu 1234567 7654321 2468086
Peter
This is a test Ad-Hoc message

The above example would dial the carrier specified by the ahu account and send the message to the pagers with PIN (ID) numbers 1234567, 7654321 and 2468086. Multiple PIN (ID) numbers on the 'to' line should be separated by spaces, commas, or semi-colons.