flexfax: Re: egetty and vgetty

[Julio C Spinelli <spine001@gold.tc.umn.edu>]

Thanks for the info. egetty is nothing, it does not exist at all. The 
only meaning of the string egetty is that if EGettyArgs is defined as 
a non nul string and AnswerRotary is set to "extern". Hylafax will 
call a program /bin/egetty. If that program does not exist...

It is the user/system developer's responsibility to write that 
program. This program's job is to answer the incoming call, determine 
its type and then exit with a CALLTYPE_XXX (FAX, DATA, DONE, ERROR, 
VOICE) code. Hylafax will then proceed as if it itself would have 
determined the type of call.

The issue I have is that when I do this I get a modem write error 
after calling the sys::write(fd,......   call and as I don't fully 
understand the inheritance rules that Sam applies and neither have I 
been able to understand the Dispatch class. I am at a loss in trying 
to guess what is going wrong.

This is why I am looking for any working example for simple and bare 
bones it is.

Thanks for your help,

Julio

Note: I hope this clarifies what egetty is.
> Date:          Mon, 20 Oct 1997 09:32:39 +0100
> To:            HylaFAX List <flexfax@sgi.com>
> From:          Phil Watkinson <pkw@elgro.co.uk>
> Subject:       egetty and vgetty
> Cc:            Julio C Spinelli <spine001@gold.tc.umn.edu>

> 
> On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Julio C Spinelli wrote :
> >It would be great if you could add how to use egetty and give a very 
> >simple example that does nothing but recognized the call as a fax 
> >call. This will help a lot of people (including me). Same would be 
> >great for vgetty.
> 
> You have the advantage over me here, since I know nothing about egetty
> ( I'm only the piano player..). Like what does the 'e' suppose to stand
> for?  Q123 of the FAQ doesn't give much detail; Nico Garcia asked a 
> couple of weeks ago for the location of the egetty program, with no 
> reply; so I guess hard information about it maybe difficult to come by. 
> 
> A description of Vgetty and its homepage is mentioned on the contrib.html
> page, as part of the section on associated programs to HylaFAX. The
> TODO List (todo.html) also acknowledges that integration issues with
> vgetty are a high priority - it is required to implement a 'faxback'
> facility.
> 
> [ A faxback system is where a person calls in, hears a string of menus
>   which they navigate with the keypad of their phone. When they decide
>   on a document they want, the system faxes it back to the fax number
>   of their choice ].
> 
> If you are interested in doing some work in this area, you will find 
> more information by searching the mailing list archives for emails from
> 'Ivan Kohler' and 'Bret A. Schuhmacher'.
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil Watkinson,
> Boston, UK.
> 
>