Play a message before fax transmiting

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Hi,

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:04:05AM +0200, Andrey Tourko wrote:
> 1. Modem dials a number
> 2. Play a message (like "Press START button to receive a fax")
> 3. And then start transmitting a fax.
> There is a script in a distribution which implementfirst two steps, but how to start fax transmission from that script?

I think there is no way yet to do that, but it should not be too hard to
implement.

I had something similar working with Klaus' old vgetty stuff, but the
new voice shell interface broke things (because the shell doesn't have
direct access to the modem anymore).

Marc (and Marc), where is the modem connected to in a "vm shell"? 
stdin/stdout?  If yes, one could attack this by running "sendfax -S" 
(modem on stdin), and sending something like "VOICE STOP" to vm 
beforehand, which would mean "do not listen on the modem file descriptor 
anymore at all".

That way, one could switch to "doing private things" with the modem,
without interfering with vm/vgetty at all, and it wouldn't be necessary
to include all the fax stuff in vm.

gert
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