what do I set to get my modem to *only* answer 'RING A'

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Hi,

I'm afraid this isn't possible with the current distinguished RING code in
mgetty. Marc?

(You could trick mgetty into answering only after the third RING, so the
fax machine will be "faster" on RING B -- this would work, though not too
elegant).

gert

Fuzzy wrote:
> 
> we wrote to usr re distinctive ring and what it returns. I get
> 'RING A' for the normal ring and 'RING B' for the 1st alternate
> ring. I want mgetty to ignore 'RING B' and only answer if the
> type is 'RING A'. with S41=0 the ring always just returns 'RING'
> for both. there is a 'real' FAX machine set to answer only 'RING B'
> on the same line. it correctly ignores 'RING A' calls.
> 
> 
> {modem init and then called both numbers to see what the modem does
> with it}
> 
> AT&F1 S7=45 S0=0 M0
> OK
> ATS41=1
> OK
> 
> RING A
> 
> RING A
> 
> RING B
> 
> RING B
> 
> thanks in advance....
> 
> 			Fuzzy
> 
> 
> 


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