help: receiving fax and not answering data

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 20:36:11 +0100


Hi,

On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 11:39:14AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> Will mgetty even pick up if it receives a fax "CNG" tone before it
> answers the phone?  if so, how do I change mgetty's forced +FAA=1
> string?

Mgetty most certainly won't "receive a fax CNG tone".  The modem will, and
will report this in some way to mgetty - tell me *how* the modem reports
this, and I can tell you how to make mgetty aware of this.

As for the +FAA=4, just look at mgetty.config's "post-init-chat" chat
sequence.

gert
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