Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:03:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@freebsd.org To: muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, ache@astral.msk.su, nate@sri.MT.net, scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: bin/1019 Message-ID: <199604191103.NAA29564@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199604191026.DAA05180@idiom.com> from "David Muir Sharnoff" at Apr 19, 96 03:26:17 am
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In reply to David Muir Sharnoff who wrote:
>
> * It certainly seems that having things like mgetty/ppp getty/foo getty
> * and bar getty is a non-optimal solution to the problem.
>
> I agree in theory, but there is one snag: detecting faxes is
> uaually an interactive process that varies based on the type
> of modem.
>
> I'm more familiar with mgetty than faxgetty and mgetty works by
> turning off auto-answer and then manually answering when it receives
> a "RING".
Why can't the "intelligent" getty check for "RING" as it can check for
a PPP header ??
As far as I can see Jordan has a very valid point here, if we make
getty search a list of known input we can make it do wahtever is
nessesary, also for receiving a fax.
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So much code to hack -- so little time.
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