Feature request for vgetty

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Hi!

Frank Doepper wrote:
> 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.

Is this an export version of the Elsa or one especially for Germany?
Do you use the firmware version for Germany or for the US? Did you
set the country code to Germany or is it set to US? This is in any
case very interesting. Does anybody know, if the regulations have
changed lately?

Bye,
Marc
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