Should I upgrade?

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hi,

Michael Staats wrote:
> We're using mgetty+sendfax-0.17 (quite old now) und AIX 3.2.5.
[..]
> Should I upgrade?

I don't think so. Newer versions have many more bells and whistles, but
the lowest level fax stuff hasn't change much. I don't think newer
versions are more reliable on sending (they are a bit upon reception).

> I still have occasionally problems with sending a fax, especially to
> foereign countries.

These are most likely line conditions / modem timing problems. I am also
not able to reliably fax to Australia from here, and I usually use the
very latest sendfax release...

> using a Zyxel 1496 EG+, ROM V 6.13 P under AIX 3.2.5 and the old
[..]
> 02/04 13:16:05  fax_wait_for: string 'AT+FET=0'
> 02/04 13:16:05  fax_wait_for: string '+FPTS:2'
> 02/04 13:16:05  page status: +FPTS:2
> 02/04 13:16:05  fax_wait_for: string 'OK'** found **
> 02/04 13:16:05  Failure transmitting 8,,0044494459720: +FHNG:-1

Well, the "failure transmitting" I don't understand, but I assume that
the maximum number of retries was reached (does your version already do
retries? Can't remember). The +FPTS:2 code means that the receiving end
requested the page to be sent again.

gert
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