Thanks all for comments. They all gave me valuable hints, but I'm disappointed that I didn't get farther with my end of it, as I also "upgraded" to windows 10, and now I don't have a driver that will work for media transfer protocol. I realize that this is not the place to discuss why my free operating system, that was worth every penny of it, and my unadulterated piece of crap phone can't communicate. If I can get the driver working, then this thread might be in business.

If anyone has a success story using perl on their phone, I'd be interested to know the brand and model of telephone, as well as the OS they use to talk to it. Indeed, the whole reason I left the world of apple was that I might use perl on a phone. I do hope to revisit this topic with something more than a strikeout.

In reply to Re^2: using perl to get sms messages by Aldebaran
in thread using perl to get sms messages by Aldebaran

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