Is that possible with vgetty ?

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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 03:44:03PM -0700, Thierry Thelliez wrote:
> 1- The users will call a server. They will get a greeting message.
> 
> 2- They will then enter a personal unique number and press whatever key
> ('#' ?) to
> finish the number
> 
> 3- The server will then switch to a fax mode waiting for the user to fax
> a document.
> 
> 4- The incoming document will be stored in a file (Tiff ?). The name of
> the file will
> be the ID the user previouly entered.

I think it *should* work, with only minor changes to vgetty (if at all),
and clever logic around.  Start a "voice shell" app from vgetty that will
scan the DTMF tones, save the User ID somewhere, then go back to vgetty 
for fax reception.  After fax reception, vgetty will run the "new_fax"
program with the file names.  This "new_fax" program can then pick up the
saved User ID, the file names, convert to whatever, and store the result
into the database.

> (5- Separate from that, an application will scan the directory and link
> internal db data
> to the received file).

Scanning, ugh.  New_fax can do that on the fly :)

> Is that under the scope of vgetty ? Has someone already done something
> comparable ?

Yes. Not that I know of.

gert
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