Play a message before fax transmiting

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Hi,

On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 04:38:43PM +0100, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> > Marc (and Marc), where is the modem connected to in a "vm shell"? 
> If you are talking about a voice shell script launched from vgetty,
> the modem is still controlled by vgetty, the shell just talks to
> vgetty through pipes, sending commands such as PLAY, RECORD, etc.

Well, yes, I know that.  But *is* it at stdin?  Or just "somewhere" or
even "nowhere"?

> > 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".
> 
> The other possibility is when vm executes a shell script: I never did
> that. However what about adding a new command SEND_FAX or
> EXECUTE_PROGRAM which would cause vgetty to fork + waitpid on a
> sendfax process ?

EXECUTE_PROGRAM sounds good.  SEND_FAX as a "call sendfax with the
proper arguments" is also good - but I want to avoid having sendfax
built into vm...

gert

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