Re: flexfax: getty questions

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 05:06:32PM -0400, Dave Wreski wrote:
> >> Outgoing faxes seem to work ok, but incoming faxes make the connection,
> >> spawn getty from faxgetty, but then never hand off to the hylafax process.
> >> If I have faxgetty in inittab, why is another getty necessary?
> > 
> > This is the item, right here.  If you're running faxgetty in the
> > inittab (you should be), and you're +not+ also running gettyps _from
> > the inittab_ (you shouldn't be), then faxgetty shouldn't ever hand the
> > call off to gettyps if it's a fax call.
> 
> Yes, I am running faxgetty in inittab, and don't plan on having any data calls
> at all, where I might need getty_ps.

Ah.   Then if faxgetty feels the need to spawn getty_ps, it's
misconfigured.

> It seems that section deals primairily with class 1 type fax modems, where I've
> configured the USR to do class 2.0.  There's nothing in the modem documentation
> regarding fax commands at all.  Can I substitute the "AT+FCLASS=1;A" with
> FCLASS=2 for the ModemAnswerCmd parameter?
> 
> If I disable adaptive answer entirely, will it always assume an incoming fax?

Forgive me; I'd misunderstood you.  Yes, if you're answering fax calls
only, you should not use Adaptive Answer at all.

Cheers,
-- jra
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