Re: flexfax: faxgetty and internet simultaneously

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> 
> If every application using the modem used '/dev/modem', would everything
> work properly?  If not, where is the breakdown?  Is it that some
> translate the link and some don't?
> 

If every application used /dev/modem, you would probably be OK, but
you could only ever have one modem on a machine without confusing the
convention, and the chances of someone using the alias would be high,
because /dev/modem is a linux curiosity, not shared with the original
platforms for a lot of the software.