gettyaccts, atdialer, fax modem recognition

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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 01:10:26 -0700
From: Darryl Krasman <darryl@idealgroup.com>
Organization: Ideal Computer Group Inc.
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Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> Thanks, Darryl.  Where'd you dig up the information to make gettyacts
> useful?  I've been looking around for some time.

I happened on the -s & -f flags while doing a man getty. From there a
man gettydefs got me an example. The problem was that the -s detect-time
in the man page says seconds when it was really 10ths of seconds. A
setting of  -s2 left precious little time for the Windoze box to get out
the detect character. High debugging on the getty showed the unit was
tenths. A setting of -s20 is usable and doesn't interfere with normal
logins too much. I suppose one could use this feature to set up a custom
program for downloading/uploading data to a hand held unit or custom
designed hardware. With some mods to atdialer I guess you could
incorporate your own voice stuff if your modem supports that. 

For kicks, try this:
NA:/usr/bin/banner:Hi there:0x01

Then dial in and in the 2 seconds before a login prompt press ^a.

 
> Do you have any lines to use in gettyacts to take care of an incoming FAX
> instead of an incoming PPP or DATA call?

I don't have a program suitable to receive a fax handy but I tried the
concept with a shell script (which needs #!/bin/sh or the exec will
fail). You need to add the -f flag to the getty entry and add a FAX
entry to /etc/gettyacts such as:
FAX:/tmp/fax::

and /tmp/fax has:
#!/bin/sh
echo 'settings: '$* >/tmp/fax.log
echo '\nEnvironment:'>>/tmp/fax.log
set >>/tmp/fax.log
exit 0

and you also need to add RTC_FAX line to your atdialer file. For my
MultiTech 2834ZDXb this seems to do the trick:
RTC_FAX=+FCON

Also look at MDM_FAXBAUD & others found in atdialer.c. What happens is
that the atdialer doesn't exit and turn control over to getty until the
RTC_FAX fails. The fly in this ointment is that it seems a regular user
can't use the line for dialing out with cu. Mind you, on this machine,
I've only got rs505a on and not oss497b & oss600a as yet.

-- 
Darryl
Ideal Computer Group Inc.

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