Re: Hylafax and PPP?

[Leslie Mikesell <les@Mcs.Net>]

> At 09:33 AM 7/29/97 +1000, Robert Colquhoun wrote:

> >
> >Get hylafax to look at mgetty for its getty and egetty programs

> I was looking at doing the same thing but ran into an unanswered question;
> Does this mean I'd have to disable mgetty's FAX recieve abilities? I was
> thinking to run mgetty instead of faxgetty, would this not work?

That should work, but you'll lose a little on the outbound side since
faxq won't know the state the modem unless faxgetty is running and
it won't be able to detect the 1-D vs. 2-D encoding capability of
the modem.  Why would you prefer mgetty's fax reception over faxgetty's
anyway?  I always thought someone should glue a 'built-in' getty
for data into faxgetty (keeping the external one as an option) since
there is next to nothing involved when the modem speed is locked and
it already knows about utmp entries.  Then it could do the same trick
as mgetty to auto-detect PPP without having to exec an intermediate
program.  (Of course I've been too lazy to try this myself...).

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com