Feature request for vgetty

• Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998 12:17:58 +0200,
Marc Eberhard <marc@athene.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:

>The modem mustn't pick up the line without a ring signal coming in
>from the telco line. Only exception is a dialout by the modem itself.
>Since this behaviour is required by the regulations, all approved
>modems for Germany will answer with ERROR to your request to pick up
>the line after the phone has stopped ringing.

That's not true. I've just tested it (killall -USR1 vgetty on a line
which didn't ring, and the modem picks up and tries to answer the dial
tone [Elsa 56k]), and I'd never recognized this behaviour.

But I've never heared of a modem answering silently, too. Does anyone
have some example how to do this? Elsa or any Rockwell modem. Kurt said:
"every voice-modem". I'm very interested. :-) 

So long
F.
-- 
http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~fdoeppe/
PGP: 1024/9B6F43AD 1997/06/01 3A 8A 31 F2 48 C9 1F CA  CF 60 3A C5 8D 1C 5F CF