Re: [hylafax-users] (no subject)

[Nick Torenvliet <torenvliet@ispnet.ca>]

Hey Jay, well I got incoming faxes working this morning, this is a lot
easier than any communications programs I've used before.

You were saying about the difference between older and newer modems and
distinctive ring... I have a usr 56k v.92 external serial connection
device I bought under a year ago from a big box office supply store. 

How can enable reporting to see what its doing when someone dials in?


On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 10:33, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:30:42AM -0400, Nick Torenvliet wrote:
> > I just installed hylafax yesterday and have a working outgoing fax
> > service today.  
> 
> Welcome aboard.  :-)
> 
> > First I have a distinctive ring feature for my incoming faxes, how easy
> > is it to set that up on hylagfax.
> 
> It depends on how new your modem is.
> 
> Older modems dir DR (once you enabled reporting) by saying "RING 1" or
> "RING 2" or something akin to that... and if you have such a modem, you
> can just change RingFax (in your modem config.devid file) to whatever
> text is appropriate.
> 
> Newer modems appear to have some fancy new reporting scheme (according
> to traffic I've seen here; haven't worked with such myself) that lets
> the app know exactly what the ring pattern looks like... at the expense
> of compatibility -- I gather the new ones *don't* do the old style
> reporting.
> 
> I don't recall for certain whether faxgetty understands the new stuff
> yet; ISTR it doesn't; check the mailing list archive for "Distinctive
> ring" for more.
> 
> > Second, I just so happen to have had mgetty+sendfax installed on the
> > system I installed hylafax on.  I noticed some messages in faxsetup that
> > required links to the agetty,vgetty  binaries in /bin/ which I actually
> > had in sbin.  My question is if I didn't have mgetty+sendfax installed
> > already would I have had to install the v/a/getty binaries myself or do
> > they come with hylafax?
> 
> You should not; they do not.  mgetty+sendfax, as I recall, conflicts
> with HylaFAX.  The other ones don't, but as setup says (never clearly
> enough, apparently, even though it's clear to *us* :-), you don't
> *need* those; it's merely pointing out that you don't have them, in
> case you plan to use them.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra


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