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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: How do existing FAX/data modems handle incoming FAXes
- Message-ID: <D19mVB1w165w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz>
- From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 12:39:24 +1300
- References: <WBE.92Dec9103224@crystal.bbn.com>
- Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)
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- wbe@bbn.com (Winston Edmond) writes:
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- > In <1992Nov30.175229.18469@combdyn.com>, Lawrence Chen writes:
- > > From what I've read the Zyxel can handle originating FAXen whether they hav
- > > the originate tone or not.
- >
- > naddy@mips.ruessel.sub.org (Christian Weisgerber) replies:
- > #Yes, but some users report that the ZyXELs also have the annoying
- > #quality to 'recognize' incoming data calls from some types of modems as
- > #fax calls.
- >
- > My impression is that this was a problem many software revisions ago, but
- > that it has long since been fixed.
- > -WBE
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- The "recognize modems as faxes" bug was eliminated with V5 ROMs.
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- ( Supposedly it was eliminated earlier, but my V4.12 modem saw V22
- modems' 1800Hz guard tone as a 1300Hz fax tone *every* time.
- It also had a couple of other nasty bugs which made it unreliable
- as an unattended BBS modem. V5 ROMs fixed all of them)
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