[hylafax-users] Sharing phone line with other fax machine?

["Jerry Kaidor" <jerry@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

   Can two fax machines share the same phone line?  I'm delighted to have
hylafax running on my linux box so I can create faxes with shell
scripts and
unix graphics utilities.  But I still use the fax machine on the Windows
side a lot.  Never at the same time, though.

   Unfortunately, when I stick them both on the same phone line, the Windows
fax ( actually a Brother MFC9700 multifunction ) "answers" the outgoing
call from the Linux fax.  It was a convenient way to test the linux fax
transmission capabilities, but ultimately the plan is to fax to other
machines out there.

   I suppose it would be possible to have a computer controlled switch that
routed the fax line to one machine or the other.  I have a Velleman kit that
interfaces the USB to a variety of slow analog & digital I/O.  But I would
hate to reinvent that wheel.

    Hints?
    Thanks in advance,

                     - Jerry Kaidor( jerry@xxxxxxx )



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