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- From: tom@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Filz)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: why not one software >fax & comms?
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 11:29:01 GMT
- Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
- Lines: 37
- Message-ID: <1dqqptINN5ca@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
- References: <17343@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- In <17343@mindlink.bc.ca> Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack) writes:
-
- >Seems to me that the solutions proposed and actually available for FAX and
- >modems share a glaring fault, as pointed out in this group recently; if I
- >have a FAX-modem for my computer, I can either monitor for FAX or for modem
- >calls, but not for both. What I need, (and what a lot of you seem to want
- >also) amounts to the following:
-
- >(Stuff deleted)
-
- Hi!
- What you need is a ZyXEL! In the newer ROM Versions (above 4.06 I think) the
- ability to distinguish between FAX and DATA Calls has been implemented.
- You only have to use the Command AT#B1+FCLASS=6. In case of incoming Data
- calls the modem gives a normal CONNECT XXXX (XXXX=Speed). In
- case of incoming Fax calls you get a CONNECT FAX and the Word "ZyXEL" in the
- next line. Now all you need is a software to start the appropriate Programs
- needed. One example is "FrontDoor" available on Wuarchive and elsewhere.
- you can set a different mailboxprogram for every different connect speed if
- you wish. A friend of mine has exactly this setup running smoothly with
- a ZyXEL, PC-Anywhere (remote-login on a Novell network) and rcvfax, the
- fax-utility delivered with the ZyXEL.
- Ideally it would even be possible to use the modem as a normal voice phone-
- answering machine, since this also is implemented in the ROMs, but the software-
- support is still very rudimentary, so we have to wait for better programs
- or write them ourselves (if anybody has, please contact me...).
-
- By the way: I have no financial interest in ZyXEL or any other of the named
- products
-
- Tom
-
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