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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!tower!johnv
- From: johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz (John Veldthuis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Silent answer
- References: <1992Dec10.220852.45557@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Distribution: World
- Message-ID: <johnv.0ag7@tower.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 19:49:36 +1200
- Organization: Amiga Virus Extermination Services, TAUG
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- Quoted from <1992Dec10.220852.45557@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> by cuadrasola@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu:
- > I just upgraded my GPFAX software with the last patch released for Supra
- > Modems. I have the new ROM in my MODEM that supports silent answer and this
- > patch adds support for this feature. However, I have not been able to get
- > silent answer to work, or to say the least, it is not doing what I thought
- > it's supposed to do.
- >
- > What I'd like the MODEM to do (and this is what I thought silent answer was
- > about) is answer a call without making the phone ring if such a call is a fax
- > call. On the other hand, if it is a voice call I want the phone to ring
- > normally and the MODEM do nothing, so I can pick it up and talk to the caller.
-
- I don't actually have this yet but from my understanding Silent answer is
- for use with answering machines. The machine picks up and answers the
- phone and the modem listens in. If the modem detects a FAX tone it then
- makes the answering machine hang up and answers the FAX.
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- *** John Veldthuis, Taranaki Amiga Users Group, johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz ***
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