Re: flexfax: mgetty

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
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> > mgetty plays with HylaFAX very nicely for me.
> > >
> > > > Does someone has tried it and know how to do to make it work?
> > >
> > > Use getty. Check my notes at http://cirl.meei.harvard.edu/hylafax/linux/
> > > for more details.
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> > Can getty set up autoPPP such that the Windows client doesn't need to
> > script the login process?  Didn't see that in your docs.  If so, yes,
> > you could scrap mgetty without losing anything.
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> Ooofff. Yes, it can, either by setting up your $homedir/.login file to
> check for being on a known modem port and auto-starting PPP, or by
> assigning a separate user-name with a ppp-login script as the shell.

Oh.  I thought you'd have to do a little scripting on the Win side, if
you did that: to enter the username and password.  With mgetty, the
Dial-up Networking pretty much works right out of the box.  But maybe
that's what you mean by "issues":
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> Each has issues, but both are feasible and work reasonably well. They're
> just not the easiest things to set up robustly.
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