Additional Documentation for vgetty requested

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Hi,

On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 01:46:07PM +0200, Steffen Klupsch wrote:
> (please tell me to repeat this posting in german if appropriate)

It's not, English is the correct language for the mgetty mailing list (and
thus, for the news group).

> I want to use the vgetty program as an answering machine and need some
> additional information.
> 
> The documentation said a file named 'Index' should hold the information
> about which greeting message is to be used. - I need a example to
> extract the syntax.

Just one file name per line.  If more than one file is listed, one of them
will be picked at random.

> What I want: 
> I want to change the greeting message based on system time 
> (at night: I am sleeping, please leave a message, at daytime: I am
> working, please leave a message)

This is not possible from within vgetty, but you can set up a cron job
("man crontab" or "man cron") that will change the Index file at certain
times.

[..]
> PS: The UMC 4 Bit ADPCM is the same as the US Robotics 4 Bit ADPCM. 
> Perhaps this could be used to extend the pvftormd and rmdtopvf tools :-)

Feel free to send in patches :-)

gert

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