Re: [hylafax-users] automatic fax detection (outbound)

["Darren Nickerson" <darren.nickerson@xxxxxxxx>]

BUSY is not the same as NOCARRIER

man hylafax-config, and spend some time reading about MaxDials, MaxTries,
and NoCarrierRetrys

As long as your modem can reliably distinguish BUSY and NOCARRIER, you
should be fine.

-Darren

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Darren Nickerson
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Verhoeven" <Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Lee Howard'" <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] automatic fax detection (outbound)


> What about avoiding retries from hylafax? I can set it the retries to 0 I
> guess, but then busy numbers will never be tried?
>
> Thanks,
> Pete.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, 14 May 2004 10:36 PM
> To: Peter Verhoeven
> Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] automatic fax detection (outbound)
>
>
> On 2004.05.13 20:29 Peter Verhoeven wrote:
> > Presuming it's impossible (hylafax or otherwise) to detect a fax
> > machine on
> > a line prior to the flagfall, what's the best way in hylafax to
> > minimise
> > call length and not attempt further dials, if a given number is not a
> > fax
> > number?
>
> You minimize the amount of time after ATDT before the modem responds
> with NO CARRIER.
>
> Usually there is an S-register in your modem that controls this.  Look
> at your modem manual.
>
> Lee.
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