Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 15:03:52 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804102103.PAA03155@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199804102020.NAA14378@rah.star-gate.com> References: <Your message of "Fri, 10 Apr 1998 13:50:02 MDT." <199804101950.NAA02342@lariat.lariat.org>
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Amancio: This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that would get great publicity for FreeBSD. Imagine being able to say, "Set up a FreeBSD system with this package, and you'll be able to retrieve your incoming voice mail, FAX, and e-mail using your browser's e-mail client!" That's enough motivation to get people to set up a FreeBSD server even if their desktop machine has to run something like Windows. --Brett At 01:20 PM 4/10/98 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > >Hi, > >I use mgetty+vgetty to manage my phone. Hylafax has the capability to >launch vgetty however I have not play with that setup . Usually for >faxing out I just launch Hylafax and kill vgetty. Perhaps, this >weekend I will play more with Hylafax to figure out how it >can launch vgetty when it detects voice. > >You can play any greeting message that you like including randomly >select your greeting message.It should be possible to setup vgetty >with voice boxes for your favorite contacts . > > >vgetty answers the phone and detects fax or voice. When vgetty gets a voice >message streams it encapsulates the stream into a mime message then >it mails to me . This is action is simply performed by a default script >which vgetty invokes after receiving a voice message. > My mail reader is exmh a tcl/tk front-end to MH. > >I have my exmh setup so that when I click on my voice folder, the voice >messages are displayed as: > > Play attached audio > > Save audio file > >You click on "Play Attached Audio" and it invokes NCD's network audio player >which has the capability to go play at any point in the audio stream >by bracketing the audio stream. > >If you like , see : ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/Voice.FAQ it is outdated >however it will give you an idea of how to set it up. > >It is possible to setup vgetty with a voice menu. With the obvious advantage >that you have a whole OS to play with . > > >If there is interest , I can gather the latest mgetty+vgetty distributions >and generate a nice user friendly package. > > > Cheers, > Amancio > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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