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scldad@sdc.com.au (Stephen Davies) writes:

> Has anybody managed to get Hylafax working in Oz so that it 
> handles inbound data and voice calls and outbound data calls 
> as well as inbound faxes?
> 
> I can get the fax part to work just fine but everything fails 
> because either the incoming call is not answered at all or faxgetty 
> fails to recognise tha call type.

I could only ever get it to receive the first page of a fax,
unfortunately most people send more than one page.  :-/

> I saw the comment about Telstra/Optus busy signal and fax call 
> frequencies but this is obviously not my problem because faxes 
> work.

The only problem I am aware of that is Australia specific is the dial
tone.  In contravention of international standards, our dial tone is
amplitude modulated 0% to 100%.  This necessitates blind dialing with
most modems.

> I am using Hylafax V4.0pl1 and a Rockwell RC288DPi modem.

Most modems use Rockwell chipsets, including ``true Australians''.  And
I thought that if I buy a more expensive, Australian modem, it would
understand our local dial tone....   :-(

IMHO Hylafax is far too hard to configure.  There is plenty of
documentation which is written by experts for experts, but to me
Hylafax remains an un-approachable, counter-intuitive, cryptic
mystery.  On the other hand, if you have 25+ years of UNIX experience,
it'll probably be just fine.  ;-)

I am now using ``mgetty''.  It required a bit of fiddling to get
going and it is a bit rough around the edges, but I now can send and
receive faxes and use the same line for dial up access to the
Internet.  :-)

You may want to check out ``mgetty'' yourself:
               <http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/> 

Another option may be Bitfax but I don't have a URL.

The K-desktop project has kfax, but most of the KDE project is still
in alpha state.  See:  <http://www.kde.org/> and 
<ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/> or <ftp://ftp.blaze.net.au/pub/kde>

Hope this is useful.
-- 
Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au>
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