Feature request for vgetty

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On 07-Oct-98 Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure whether this will work.  Usually, modems do not answer
> "silently", but start sending their own answering tones quit quickly

I was thinking of putting this in vgetty, not mgetty.  Any voice modem can
pick up the line and just listen - no tones sent.

> In addition, I don't think this is a feature that should go into mgetty.
> It will mainly be useful in shared-phone-line scenarios, which isn't
> really what mgetty was designed for, but will make maintenance harder.

Shared phone lines may not be what mgetty was made for, but it seems to me
that it is ideal for vgetty.  I have a small consulting business that runs
off a single phone line.

> The "RING handler" code is already quite messy, and needs rewrite these
> days, which is hard because of all the stuff that's already there
> (ringback, nologin, caller ID, vgetty's dynamic change of the number of
> desired RINGs, ...).

True.  I'd be willing to write a patch, but if things are going in for a
rewrite in that area anyways, it might not be the best time.

Regards:
    Kurt.


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