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Through several sessions with minicom and my cell-phone, I have found that the ring patterns reported by the modem for the fax number, with AT+VDR=1,1 , are(with perhaps exceptions at the very begining and excluding any caller id information) DRON=8 RING DRON=4 DRON=8 RING DROF=40 repeat.... While for my normal voice number DRON=20 RING DROF=40 repeat... As stated in my ealier post, I could not directly make use of the Distinctive Ring Report feature of the multitech modem in Hylafax to route the calls. However, I could take advantage of the fact that with AT+VDR=1,0 or 1,1 the "RING" signals occur twice as frequently for the fax number as for the voice number. ( I doubt that tweaking the second parameter(0-255) would help much since it just increases the delay between the first ring signal and the report). This means that a call from a fax number becomes answered in less time than from a voice number, for the same amount of rings. Note this only works with AT+VDR=1,0. If the default AT+VDR=0,0 is used, then the frequencies are the same. Furthermore, just by luck, it appears Hylafax adds another two rings for the ring count for the voice number, while not for the fax number ( Guess - because I am using Caller ID and the Caller ID information disrupts the counting of the rings? ) Anyway, I found a value of "RingsBeforeAnswer" = 4 optimal. Fax calls get answered in less than two voice ring times, while voice calls aren't answered until 9 rings! I found some more data on this: RingsBeforeAnswer = 4 Actual No of Voice Phone rings before ATA: 7 6 9 I am hoping this will work well with another process vgetty, to answer the voice line before Faxgetty gets the chance to answer the line. (It will work best if vgetty counts the rings "better" ). Anyway, I'll see about that part tomorrow. George ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________ To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe hylafax-users-request@hylafax.org < /dev/null *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail sales@hylafax.org.*