Re: Waiting for modem to come ready

[raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu]

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Let Hylafax do the modem configuration, and be called from your
"ttytab" file (or the Linux version of this) to provide getty's. Let
HylaFAX provide incoming getty's for incoming fax, PPP calls, etc., and
let HylaFAX reset the modem when finished. This will let your other
software start from a known state, use its own initialization strings
as necessary, and continue on their merry way without worrying about
resetting the damn modem when finished.

Use software packages for outgoing calls that cooperate with the UUCP
locking mechanism. Kermit, for example, works flawlessly under SunOS, and
the latest version of it is quite robust and portable. ppp-2.3b3 also
works just fine.

HylaFAX is admittedly over-powered: too many commercial packages
provide *only* fax, or *only* dial-in, or *only* voicemail, etc., and
are not portable or regularly upgraded. HylaFAX has proven vastly more
reliable and vastly more capable, partly because Sam is a very clever
programmer, and partly because he (and the other contributors) have
added in new features as soon as they are vaguely standardized.

HylaFAX also takes its re-setting the modem stage seriously: It actually
goes in and sets *all* the necessary flags and lists them by use,
rather than publishing these mysterious undocumentable "init strings"
that many packages use.

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.harvard.edu


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