Making a phone call?

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hi,

On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:45:32AM -0500, Gilles Labrecque wrote:
>    I'm using mgetty/vgetty since a couple of weeks. I can receive 
> and send faxes properly as well as I can register voice messages.
> I read the FAQ and part of the archive. Also I subscribed and read the
> mailing lists a couple of days. I figured I made a reasonable effort to 
> find an answer but I didn't.  My problem is:
> 
> I'm at home and I share my phone line with the modem ( only one line).
> When I try to make a phone call ( dialing out) the modem answers me and
> plays the welcome message. This cause confusion because at one moment
> I can hear the welcome message and the person at the other end.

Sounds like a problem with your telephone cabling or modem.  The modem 
should certainly not interpret an outgoing phone call as "incoming call",
and react to it.

[..]
> I'm not an expert. I would like to know if my solution is ok (proper)?

Pure accident that it works - must be some weird modem that listens to fax
tones all the time, and "recognizes" your DTMF tones as "hey, I have to
pick up now!".

> What would be a better solution?
>  and what are the potential consequences of my solution. (for the moment
> I'm not using voice mail)?
> 
> By the way I would like to know(understand) what is the meaning and
> exact role of DTMF tone? The modem isn't suppose to wait X rings (3 in my
> case) before answering an incoming call, not and an outgoing one?

Vgetty *is* supposed to wait for 3 RINGs.  Look into the vgetty log file
to see what really happens - we wouldn't know.

> ============================
> A sample of vgetty.ttyS1
> ========================

Ah, let's see...

> 11/29 11:00:55 yS1  US Robotics detected
> 11/29 11:00:56 yS1  US Robotics voice modem
> 11/29 11:00:56 yS1  This is a driver beta version. V0.4.b3
> 11/29 11:00:56 yS1  VTD setup successful
> 11/29 11:00:57 yS1  waiting...

Hmmm.  This isn't really useful, because it shows the modem
initialization, but not your *problem*.  Please show a log file snippet
(debug level set to "-x6") from exactly the point in time where the modem
disturbed your call.

gert
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