Re: flexfax: Direct Inward Dial

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

On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 11:28:21AM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> > Have anyone implemented HylaFAX using DID (Direct Inward Dial) before?  I
> > find little information about this topic.
> 
> That's because a DID extension is indistinguishable from an exchange line
> as far as hylafax is concerned.
> 
> I think you have not fully specified your problem and are maybe using
> DID to refer to some specific PABX option, not in its generic sense.

Perhaps I misunderstood him, David, but I gathered he was wondering
whether it was possible to use HylaFax with hardware that terminates a
DID-style telco trunk, picking off the inpulsing to determine where to
route the incoming fax.

The short answer to the original question is "no".  Anything that is
not logically a faxmodem, HylaFax is not designed to work with.

Any device that presents as a serial port with an AT command set modem
behind it will work -- no matter _what_ actual hardware is behind the
device driver.  As I noted before, there is motion afoot to port much
of the Natural Microsystems driver code to Linux; see www.opentelecom.org,
among other sites.

Or, in other words: FAQ! FAQ! FAQ!

Please remember folks: we (well, ok; "they") don't maintain those
mailing list archives for [our] health... we maintain them for _yours_.

Please look there...

Cheers,
-- jra
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