Re: flexfax: help on configuring to receive faxes

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

On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:45:30PM -0500, Greg Breland wrote:
[ use "/dev/ttyS?" rather than /dev/modem ]
> Can someone explain why this causes problems?  Also, I did not use a
> ttySx device.  I use "cua0" and "cua1".  Is this just a difference
> between Unix flavors?  Which is best to use?  

It's like this: /dev/modem is, at least on RedHat, a symlink to
whatever your modem is connected to.  Since modems don't move much,
pointing stuff to /dev/modem can cause problems when you don't have
_everything_ pointed there, since two different names point to the same
port -- which can cause locking problems.

Now, if you _do_ have a situation where your modem chanegs ports
regularly, I'm beginning to think (as someone who has this problem)
that maybe the work involved in making sure _everything_ points to the
symlink is worth not having to track down _everything_ _everytime_ I
move a modem.  But that's a personal opinion.

In any case, don't use the cua devices, if you're on a 2.0 or better
kernel; they're deprecated and they're going away.

Cheers,
-- jra
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