Re: flexfax: faxmodem -> faxgetty

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 04:08:28PM +0100, Darren Nickerson wrote:
> >Why ? Suse says that faxgetty can receive FAXes, too.
> >What else can I use to receive a FAX ?
> 
> You misunderstood David's comment. He was telling you that you should always
> run faxgetty. Even if you are only sending. Not running faxgetty is the most
> common misconfiguration of HylaFAX(tm).

Well, Darren, to be fair, it's not "officially" a misconfiguration -- yet.

The docos don't say that it's mandatory, and indeed, it's not.  It's
just _much_ easier to live with the system that way.

Unless you have hangup-when-spawning-the-data-getty problems, as I have
one place.  :-}

Cheers,
-- jra
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