Re: flexfax: faxmodem -> faxgetty

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

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On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Christian Nause wrote:

> Darren Nickerson wrote:
> > You misunderstood David's comment. He was telling you that you should always
> > run faxgetty. Even if you are only sending. Not running faxgetty is the most
> > common misconfiguration of HylaFAX(tm).
> 
> Could anybody explain why it is recommended to install faxgetty in a
> send-only-environment.
> Which problems occur if you only install faxmodem ttyS0 in rc.local
> (thats the way I install HylaFAX on Redhat 5.2).

If you use minicom or kermit to dial-out with that modem, it can be
left in a rather odd state. faxgetty resets the state of the modem
automatically for the next use.

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

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