Mgetty 099Nov04 on AIX and more ....

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Hello,

On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> 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.

Ok, I'll mail you the messages tomorrow, only to you.


> > 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 :)

What about FAX_COMMAND_DELAY? It seems it is not online-configurable,
but maybe we overlooked somethings.

> 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?)

Well, for a quick change when you know approximately what to do, I'd
really like this. Isn't that the usual way to do things: Hack until it
works, if only everything else fails, read the manual :-) I admit, if
I'm somwhat familiar with the problem, I do this. Don't we all?

But probably you're right, random newuser with it's shiny new Pentium
under Linux who doesn't even care about READMEs might be tempted to
not read the documentation, won't get it working and ask in several
newsgroups why this bad mgetty program won't work....

You've got to decide....

[ ... ]

> > # (needed: short description of each point)
>                    ^^^^ see doc/mgetty.texi.

Ok.
Although: At home I recently installed mgetty (finally bought a used
Zyxel for me as replacement for a 2400 bps modem) but I don't have
makeinfo on my Linux system and right the evening I needed it, I
couldn't install it. (But then again, you can always read the .texi
file. Or the source. At least the source is always up to date :-).

Bye,
	Michael

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