Re: flexfax: Large number of errors with Hylafax and ZyXEL Omni modem

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Shuvam Misra wrote:

> | I perhaps would remove or alter the LocalIdentifier line to make it your
> | phone no only, but i imagine this would only upset a small percentage of
> | fax machines.  Also it's just a personal thing but it would be much better
> | if you were using /dev/ttySX rather than /dev/modem.
> 
> My /dev/modem is linked to /dev/cua0. I'm always confused about the
> difference between cuaX and ttySX. I also remember reading somewhere on
> the Usenet that Linux would "soon" abolish this distinction which caused
> more problems than it solved, or something to that effect. Did this
> "soon" mean kernel 2.0.30?

That was me: according to Ted T'so at MIT, the split-device trick is
going away in the next major kernel change. Tools like mgetty and
HylaFAX make it unnecessary.

It's still present in 2.0.33, however.

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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