distinctive ring

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Hi,

On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 07:34:54PM -0700, The Lost Wizard wrote:
> I've not been able to discover anything about this so I'll ask here. If
> there is an obvious place for this information, point me there and I'll go
> away :)
> 
> I need to use distinctive ring support to answer on "RING B" and ignore
> "RING A". The only documentation I could find on doing this uses vgetty;
> however, I do not have a voice modem so I don't see any reason to use
> vgetty. (If anyone wants to know, I have a 3Com Sportster V.90 Fax modem.
> Please no flames about the modem.)

Right now, mgetty can't handle distinctive RING natively.

On the other hand, with 1.1.18 and 1.1.19, you *can* do this through the
external "cnd-program" interface - mgetty can call an external program to
decide whether to accept an incoming call, based on the dist-ring number,
the Caller ID, and some other things.

This program can basically do whatever it wants, and in your case, it
could base its decision purely on the dist ring number, ignoring
everything else.

gert

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