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From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>
To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>,
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Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet"
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On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 01:20:37PM -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 If you like , see : ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/Voice.FAQ it is outdated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
> 
> 
> 

Amancio,

This is just about the coolest thing I have heard of in the last 6
months!!! Would you like to give a demo of this system at the next BAFUG
(Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group) ? 


Josef

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