vgetty rings

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Hi,

Dan Fandrich wrote:
> I noticed in rings.c in vgetty that if the rings are set less than 2, then they
> are set to 2. What is the rationale behind this? 

Why do you ask *me* about this?  I do not develop vgetty, and the
documentation very explicitely states that vgetty questions are to go to
the list or to Marc.

> I actually would like to have
> a rings of 0 allowed, so that vgetty answers the phone immediately, without
> waiting for a ring. That would allow me to let HylaFAX count the number of
> rings and determine when to answer the phone, but have it call vgetty to do
> the actual answering. Right now, HylaFAX calls vgetty, but vgetty won't answer
> without another 2 rings, so if someone hangs up before letting it ring twice,
> it puts the system into a bad state.

What a crazy idea.  Why do you want to do Hyalfax to do the RING counting,
instead of vgetty?  You don't *need* Hylafax then! (You can pretty well
use vgetty-only for incoming calls and Hylafax for outgoing calls!).

I have a hard time understanding why people want to use Hylafax for
incoming *fax* calls, and mgetty for data/PPP, but I can understand the
argueing that Hylafax creates .TIF files and mgetty does not.  But why
bother with Hylafax if you don't even use its fax reception features???

gert

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