what is 'retrain' (sendfax/faxspool message)?

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Hi,

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:34:06AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> Could someone fill me in what this means:
> 
>  WARNING: RTP: page good, but retrain requested
>                               ^^^^^^^ (Umschulung? Ich dachte das
>                                        waere vorbei :-O)

"training" means "find out whether the line quality is good enough for
9600 bps, if not, try 7200, if not, try 4800, if not, try 2400".  If a
received page has many errors, the receiver may ask the sender to repeat
this training phase, and repeat the page just sent, or just go ahead - in
your case, a retrain was requested, but the page was "good enough", so no
resend was requested.

Fairly rare situation, but permitted.

If that happens regularily, it could hint at a noisy phone line (and you
could try to force sendfax to use a slower fax speed with "-M 7200").

gert

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