Date: 18 February 2000 06:03
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: flexfax: What is Adaptive Answer?
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Menno Schaap wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what adaptive answer is. The only thing I can find in the
> hylafax documentation is that calls can be seperated to different getty's.
Adaptive answer is where the modem itself picks up the phone, listens
to the tones sent by the calling machine, and decides whether the call
is voice, fax, or data and tries to handle it appropriately.
> But is it also possible with AA that the modem only picks up when it
> is a fax and leaves it when it is a voice call?
No. It has to pick up the phone and listen to the sound to make its guess
about what the call is.
Nico Kadel-Garcia
nkadel@bellatlantic.net
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