Re: flexfax: Alternating Fax and Modem?

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

> Is it possible to send or receive a fax while still keeping your dial-up
> or ADSL modem on? Or do you have to turn the modem off to use the fax
> and vice-versa?

Provided all the programs respect the UUCP locking conventions and all have
been correctly configured for this, there should be no problem.  Typical
plug and play linux problems are failing to realise that /dev/modem and
/dev/ttyS1 are different devices to UUCP locking (in my view, /dev/modem
should never have been invented).  Typical
plug and play linux problems are failing to realise that /dev/modem and
/dev/ttyS1 are different devices to UUCP locking (in my view, /dev/modem
should never have been invented).