Mgetty 099Nov04 on AIX and more ....

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Hi,

Michael Staats wrote:
> 1. I tried mgetty-0.99 (Nov 04 + plus the echo/echoe fix Gert
> mailed/posted recently) on AIX 3.2.5. It doesn't compile without
> changes, some files only compile with xlc (strict ANSI compiler),
> other files only with cc (C Compiler in extended language mode).
> If you're interested I can mail you the error messages, I didn't patch
> the sources up to now since it compiles with switching compilers...

Yep, I'd like to see what the compiler complains about. I changed *so*
much since 0.17 that it's very likely that I broke something.

> After that it worked for about one week with our Zyxel 1496 EG+ as
> usual with our old mgetty-0.17 (i. e. quite good, we have some trouble
> faxing to foreign countries and data connections at high speed, but
> they are probably caused by bad internal lines in our university plus
> very bad local lines in Duisburg-City (this will change soon)).

Good :)

> Then our Zyxel broke :-( (SQ blinking 4 time on self-test). No, I

Bad :(

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> 2. I added some lines to the mgetty.config file since it it not easy
> to find out what to configure there and what you must change in
> policy.h. 

Except for the flow control things, and the USR gotcha, you can configure
*everything* in the mgetty/sendfax.config file -- that's what it's for :)

The missing things will be added some day as well.

> Maybe this should be included in the default config file. 

I don't think so, it will only prevent people from reading the very
detailed description in mgetty.info (but maybe other people think
differently about this -- opinions?)

> Even better, someone write a sed/awk/perl script that extracts
> these things from the source code. 

This would be easy, but I'm not yet convinced it's necessary.

> # Things you can configure in this file (mgetty.config):
> # (needed: short description of each point)
                   ^^^^ see doc/mgetty.texi.

gert

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