Re: [hylafax-users] Fax Extension Numbers

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

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:04:10AM -0500, Christopher A. Seward Sr. wrote:
> I'm not trying to be argumentitive, but the hardware is not the
> problem. We have a modem that will pass on additional numbers dialed
> beyond what is needed to connect to our fax server. The person sending
> the fax just sets the number dialed with a pause between the fax
> server number and the extension It has nothing to do with DID. There
> are commercial fax server packages that will handle this. I'm just
> wondering how I can get Hylafax to recognize and act on these numbers.

Um, how, precisely, *does* the receiving modem put the numbers out to
the software it's connected to?  And does it receive them *before* or
*after* it answers the phone?

See, the thing is, there's no standard way to do that "DTMF
pseudo-DID" thing, which is probably one of the reasons why it's never
been implemented.

What sort of reliability were you seeing with it with the commercial
package?

(A slightly more technical answer is: "you'd have to modify the code in
faxgetty to deal with whatever the modem wants to send, and figure out
a way to get the information gleaned out to faxrcvd, which is the
script that would have to *do* something with it.")

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra@baylink.com
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