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karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) writes:
: Hi
: 
: My computer is working as a main UUCP site in our user group, and I got a  
: UUCP connection to the InterNet.
:   
: 
:          InterNet
:             |     (UUCP)
:           My NeXT
:          /  |  \   (UUCP perhaps slip)
:    o t h e r  s i t e s (members)
: 
: 
: My requirements is therefor to be able to answer modem-phone calls from my  
: subsystems and to call my HUB. Anyway - the modem has the ability to send  
: and receive fax, and I would like to use that - can I do that while I has  
: to let the modem be able to both send and receive data?
: 
: I tried to configure it using the Fax tools in NeXT-Step 3.0PRE2, but  
: without success. Is there a hack I don't know about, or is it not possible  
: to let the modem work as both fax and modem concurrent? I know there must  
: be some race-condition between gettty and the fax-daemon, but???
: 
: Regards,
: Karsten.
: -- 
: Karsten Thygesen (karthy@dannug.dk) (NeXT-Mail welcome)
: Danish NeXT Users Group
: Phone: +45 98 12 42 59
: Aalborg, Denmark.

Karsten,
    We had heard that there was no real improvement in v3.0 for Fax, and that
is part of the reason that we decided to produce DFax.  While the initial re-
lease only supports the SupraFax v.32bis/v.42bis FaxModem, it DOES support
adaptive answer, with pass-off to login for data calls according to a standard
/etc/ttys entry, and direct non-login fax receive (which as you can easily im-
agine is necessary for incoming faxes).

    We have not seen 3.0PRE2, or any other 3.0 version, as of yet, but look for-
ward to seeing just what in the phonekit we may find with which to integrate.
As DFax stands now, on the verge of shipment, it answers adaptively, so long as
the modem is able to answer adaptively, and in data-fax-data-fax toggle for
those which are broken (if so configured), and should allow ANYTHING to log-
in which performs a normal Unix login, such as uucico (mail & UUcopy), though
the toggled answers are inconvenient and inefficient in this regard.  Thankfully
Supra has guaranteed us that the broken adaptive answer will be fixed with the
pending ROM release.

   I *can* speak for 2.1.  Under 2.1, with the fax software supplied with the
NeXT, it cannot even switch between fax and data calls without a reboot accord-
ing to technical descriptions.  It also (reportedly) is incapable of in-line
retrains, merely giving up when bad binary data is received.

   *Plug:*  Perhaps DFax would be your answer.

disclaimer:  I work for Total System Software, producers of DFax for the NeXT.
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