Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 15:45:00 -0700 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>, 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: <19980411154500.09619@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <199804102020.NAA14378@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 01:20:37PM -0700 References: <199804101950.NAA02342@lariat.lariat.org> <199804102020.NAA14378@rah.star-gate.com>
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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 If you like , see : ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/Voice.FAQ it is outdated 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 -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.5 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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