Can mgetty count rings and do something useful with it?

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Hi,

On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:21:43PM +0100, Roy Millar wrote:
> > > [xringd]
> > > time ago, so don't know much about it, but I would think that some way
> > > (or some kludge) could be found which would allow it to interact with
> > > mgetty.
> > No.
> 
> Well, I may be wrong, but I have a feeling that something like the
> following could be made to work. (very messy though) :-
> 
> Connect the 'ring detect' signal not to the appropriate pin on the

Uh, if you start wiring things differently, it will work, but indeed, this
is messy.

> Have xringd watch that second port.

Does xringd watch the RI line, or does it look for "RING" messages on the
RX line?

gert
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