help: receiving fax and not answering data

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Hi,

On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 10:20:02AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> How can I setup mgetty to handle faxes and ignore data calls
> completely?  I only want mgetty to answer to phone when the fax tone is
> heard.  

How do you know it's a fax tone before anwering? - it will only work if
your modem supports "listening into a voice call", but as you write, your
modem supports it.

Now you only have to find out how to enable this feature in your modem 
(modem manual) and test what happens - will it only send a RING to the
host if it has identified the call as "FAX", or will it send some other
special string?

gert
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