Handshake-error with sendfax

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Hi,

Andreas Breitenbach wrote:
> I have a serious problem with sendfax. 
> 
> I will get a connection to the other Faxmachine and everything seems to
> be allright. They do handshaking with each other, but sendfax is 
> waiting for XON-Handshake wich never comes. Nothing happens. 

There are a couple of dumb modems that don't send the initial Xon,
you can try to work around this by recompiling sendfax and setting
"CFLAGS=-DFAXSEND_NO_XON" in Makefile before (see "faxsend.c" for details).

> I have just tried to switch on the modems software-handshake but 
> with no success.

No, this is a different issue.

> 		Class 2 Faxmodem (28800/V42bis Rockwell-Chipset)

RockJunk

> 05/27 21:10:26 yS2  fax_wait_for: string 'CONNECT'** found **
> 05/27 21:10:26 yS2  waiting for XON, got:[0a]
> 05/27 21:10:46 yS2  fax_send: timeout
> 05/27 21:10:46 yS2  fax_read_byte: read returned -1: Interrupted system
> call
> 05/27 21:10:46 yS2  timeout waiting for XON: Interrupted system call

This is fairly weird, yes. Please try with the mentioned define.

gert
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