Modem gives error

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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 meunier@idiom.com wrote:

> In article <m0xDaZi-0000kAC@mobile.greenie.muc.de>
> gert@greenie.muc.de writes:
> 
> >It's one of the new "all shiny outside and crap inside" Rockwell modems,
> >which doesn't have any usable fax interface anymore :-(
> 
> Well, as the proud owner of one of those new "all shiny outside and
> crap inside" Rockwell modems, I take offense at your use of the word
> "usable". See below.
> 
> >The Class 1 fax interface is not supported by mgetty, but you might want
> >to give "efax" or "hylafax" a try. (Class 1 timing is very difficult to
> >do on a loaded unix system, but both programs work well on a lightly loaded
> >machine with only one modem).
> 
> I have a lightly-loaded Linux box, and efax works just fine with my
> Class 1 Rockwell-inside modem. So, this modem is as "usable" as any
> for me.
> 

Well, I can understand Gert's "unwillingness" to support such a broken
feature (in the terms of unreliability in case of load). If you look at
many of the problems that come up in normal operation, explaining why
the receiving or sending of faxes in Class 1 mysteriously fails from
time to time (I was compiling the kernel and the fax was totally garbled
or some such) will just be too much...

Klaus

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