Fax Class 1

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Hi,

On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 04:32:46PM +0100, Peter Lister wrote:
> > $ wc -l mgetty/*class1*
> >     336 mgetty/class1.c
> >      62 mgetty/class1.h
> >     618 mgetty/class1lib.c
> >    1301 total
> >
> > ... something is there, and it's already sufficient to send single page
> > faxes, as long as the G3 file has the necessary byte padding and you don't
> > care about proper result codes :)
> 
> efax, as per the Red Hat 5.2 rpm seems to work, to my untutored eye, at any rate
> with our class 1 modems. 

Try connecting 8 modems to a 386/40, bring the load up to 2.5, and see
what will happen if you use all of them at the same time.  With class 2,
this is easy.

> Trouble is that I really want to use mgetty+sendfax, cos
> it knows about logins, PPP dialup etc, which efax doesn't (this causes a problem
> with locking among other things) and the primary job of these modems is dialin.

Hmmm, well - why not use efax for faxing out, and mgetty for dial-in?
This would work pretty well, as long as efax does proper locking (which it
should be able to do, as far as I know).

> Yes, I *know* that in hindsight we should have bought class 2 fax modems, but the
> fact remains I've got class 1s, and I'd really to like to use them this week, not
> next year. 

Well...

> If Gert's solution is not going to be around for a week or to, can I
> do anything to get efax functioning, and preferably co-existing with mgetty?

Sure... find out where the problems with efax are and fix them.  Shouldn't 
be too hard.

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gert

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