[hylafax-devel] Re: config/usr-xon & usr-rts

[Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>]

Steve Williams <steve@genie96.com> writes:

> programming the modem for auto answer has no bearing on the adaptive
> answer feature.....
> 
> that's controlled by ( from memory ) RingsBeforeAnswer
> 
> Totally different thing...
> 
> what is in discussion is when the modem is enabled for auto answer,
> should it only receive fax calls, or data calls as well?

Of course, we are talking of Adaptive Answer, not Auto Answer. But the
acronym, me and Tim used ( AA, because the appropriate command is
ModemSetupAACmd ) was possibly confusing.

> in over 200 HylaFAX installs that I have done, only 5 have been 
> receive fax only environments.  The rest are all data and fax answering
> 
> I guess that's pretty controversial...

The user should decide himself if he really wants DATA & FAX on the same
line (realizing all possible problems). We cannot do this for him.

> Since there is no one way to enable a modem for Adaptive Answer, I 
> think AT THE MINIMUM, the proper commands should be in the file, but
> commented out.  

Agree.

I also think that faxaddmodem script should parse two files when generating 
modem config: generic ClassX template and specific model template. If some
parameter is present in model template, it will be used, otherwise generic
ClassX value will do. This way we can move all Class-specific settings (
ModemSetupAACmd etc. ) to ClassX templates while model templates will
contain only minimal model specific settings (flow control etc.) Is this
acceptable approach?

> I personally think that if a person is enabling the modem to answer the
> phone, they are aware of what they are doing, and it would be "nice"
> if the modem would do the most versatile thing possible, but it's not
> really that big of a deal.

Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry




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