vgetty not answering after cancelled fax

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Hi,

On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 12:28:19AM +1000, Craig Southeren wrote:
>   After giving up on vgetty and my el-cheapo Rockwell modem, I started again
> with a brand new Acer modem which uses the TI chipset.
> 
>   I've got all of the voice and fax reception going, and I've got scripts
> that will grab the received data and encode them into MIME encoded email
> attachments. BTW: if anyone is interested in these scripts, just email me. I
> couldn't find scripts to do this in the vgetty distribution.

I'll hapiliy include them into voice/samples/.  Please include a short 
documentation.

>   The only problem is that vgetty will sometimes get into a state where it
> refuses to answer the modem. This usually occurs after the modem has
> incorrectly identified a distinctive ring and answered a voice call as a fax
> call. A log file can be found at http://www.southeren.com/vgetty.txt. This
> log file shows a correctly received fax call, then an aborted fax call.

Uh, could you send the log file?  I really don't like to undergo any
effort to be able to look at a log file (no MIME attachmens, no "compress
and uuencode" stuff, just plain ASCII included at the end of the e-mail).

> After that, nothing happens when I call the modem. No log messages, nothing.

That's really weird.  Maybe the modem CPU just crashed?  (This is known to
happen).

>   This is the only thing stopping me from using vgetty for real.
> 
>   Any ideas?

How do you get it back?  Resetting the modem?  In that case, there isn't
anything vgetty can do, I'm afraid.  *Maybe* it's a problem of the serial
port (try a different one), but that's unlikely.

gert
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