NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/dcom/fax/1696

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From: [e-mail] (Andy Rabagliati)
Subject: Re: replacement for uugetty? [was: Re: HELP! Netfax 3.2 on SVR3.2]
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:20:44 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>Assuming you want to use as few phone lines as possible,
>and you want people with regular faxes to call your system,
>wouldn't you need a smart replacement for uugetty to route
>the connection to the appropriate service?
>

Yes.

[uu]getty is a login sort of thing though. My uugetty (IRIX] has two scripts,
one to prepare the modem, and the other when it chatters. So I listen for RING,
type ATA, etc, because I can.

I could perhaps extend this to type ATA, then switch on CONNECT or +FCON (or
however it works) to run either login or some fax daemon.

I seem to remember that some uucico programs (not mine) have a daemon mode,
where they 'own' a port, and handle all transactions including picking up the
phone. I presume this is for systems that don't have smart uugettys.

Maybe it is a variant of this that is needed - something that permanently hangs
onto the port. Perhaps a signal could be sent to it to ask it to step aside for
cu, or whatever.

>
>I don't know how netfax handles this problem, if it does.

I don't think it does.

Cheers,  Andy.
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[e-mail]  Andy Rabagliati, RR1 Box 33, Wyalusing, PA 18853 [phone]