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- From: bruce@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG
- Subject: Re: Receive fax AND modem
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.124415.501@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG>
- Reply-To: <bruce@TotSysSoft.com> (Bruce Gingery)
- Organization: Total System Software
- References: <BtDsMJ.35r@dannug.dk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 12:44:15 GMT
- Lines: 63
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- karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) writes:
- : Hi
- :
- : My computer is working as a main UUCP site in our user group, and I got a
- : UUCP connection to the InterNet.
- :
- :
- : InterNet
- : | (UUCP)
- : My NeXT
- : / | \ (UUCP perhaps slip)
- : o t h e r s i t e s (members)
- :
- :
- : My requirements is therefor to be able to answer modem-phone calls from my
- : subsystems and to call my HUB. Anyway - the modem has the ability to send
- : and receive fax, and I would like to use that - can I do that while I has
- : to let the modem be able to both send and receive data?
- :
- : I tried to configure it using the Fax tools in NeXT-Step 3.0PRE2, but
- : without success. Is there a hack I don't know about, or is it not possible
- : to let the modem work as both fax and modem concurrent? I know there must
- : be some race-condition between gettty and the fax-daemon, but???
- :
- : Regards,
- : Karsten.
- : --
- : Karsten Thygesen (karthy@dannug.dk) (NeXT-Mail welcome)
- : Danish NeXT Users Group
- : Phone: +45 98 12 42 59
- : Aalborg, Denmark.
-
- Karsten,
- We had heard that there was no real improvement in v3.0 for Fax, and that
- is part of the reason that we decided to produce DFax. While the initial re-
- lease only supports the SupraFax v.32bis/v.42bis FaxModem, it DOES support
- adaptive answer, with pass-off to login for data calls according to a standard
- /etc/ttys entry, and direct non-login fax receive (which as you can easily im-
- agine is necessary for incoming faxes).
-
- We have not seen 3.0PRE2, or any other 3.0 version, as of yet, but look for-
- ward to seeing just what in the phonekit we may find with which to integrate.
- As DFax stands now, on the verge of shipment, it answers adaptively, so long as
- the modem is able to answer adaptively, and in data-fax-data-fax toggle for
- those which are broken (if so configured), and should allow ANYTHING to log-
- in which performs a normal Unix login, such as uucico (mail & UUcopy), though
- the toggled answers are inconvenient and inefficient in this regard. Thankfully
- Supra has guaranteed us that the broken adaptive answer will be fixed with the
- pending ROM release.
-
- I *can* speak for 2.1. Under 2.1, with the fax software supplied with the
- NeXT, it cannot even switch between fax and data calls without a reboot accord-
- ing to technical descriptions. It also (reportedly) is incapable of in-line
- retrains, merely giving up when bad binary data is received.
-
- *Plug:* Perhaps DFax would be your answer.
-
- disclaimer: I work for Total System Software, producers of DFax for the NeXT.
- --
- Bruce Gingery bruce@TotSysSoft.com (Total System Software)
- InterNet: Bruce.Gingery@p1.f5.n310.z1.fidonet.org ( Cheyenne, Wyoming )
- or bruce@brucext.TotSysSoft.com
- NeXT-Mail: bruce@tssnext.rmNUG.org < -or- > bruce@TotSysSoft.com
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