Mgetty 099Nov04 on AIX and more ....

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Hi,

Michael Staats wrote:
> 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.

Yes, thanks.

> > > 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.

Yes. Forgot that one, same for DO_CHAT_SEND_DELAY. Actually, I haven't
seen any case yet where the default of 50 msecs wasn't sufficient.

> > 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?

Hmmm. Not that wrong.

> 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....

That's it.  Most of the "mgetty is broken" messages in c.o.l.* actually
are cases of "didn't read manual" or "has bought cheap broken hardware".

> You've got to decide....

That's why I want to get some more opinions on this, after all, that's
what a mailing list is for :)

> [ ... ]
> 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 :-).

Or http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/

But, you're right, I should try to get "texi2nroff" up again, and pack
an ASCII version of the documentation into the mgetty distribution.

gert

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