vgetty - off hook after 1st ring

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Hi,

Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> : Vgetty allowed to set the number of rings to 1 for quite a while, but
> : after I got twenty or so complains, that vgetty dosen't work (because
> : the users had caller id and set rings to 1), I decided to allow only
> : 2 or more rings. I have to maintain vgetty in my free time and it
> : didn't help to write, that you need at least rings set to 2. Users
> : set rings to 1 and complained. I was tired of this, it just costs me
> : time, so I decided to force a minimum of 2 rings.
> 
> 	:-( I can understand you in this case. But I still maintain the
> idea that setting number of rings to 1 should be possible without
> recompilation the sources. Maybe the "I_really_want_one_ring_only no"
> option with an appropriate amount of warning comment around it? :-)

I agree.  We could have an option "disable-distinctive-ring" which
would set the lower limit to "1".

> 	I think the mgetty have the same problem and it allows you
> to set number of rings to 1.

I didn't get as much questions about it :-) -- otherwise I would have
done it as well.

gert

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