Receiving a fax

Receiving a fax

[Jens Knoell]

Following situation:
- Incoming call gets picked up by a human (i.e. picks up phone)
- Human realizes it's an incoming fax, and signals the linux box to receive
the fax

Problem: How do I force Linux to start receiving a fax since there is no
RING signal anymore (silly human picked up phone first)? I've tried with
mgetty, hylafax and efax - none of these seem to have any means of forcing
them to pick up the line and start receiving?

Anyone got a solution or idea to that particular problem? I kinda feel I
overlooked something trivial, just not sure what.

Thanks
Jens

Re: Receiving a fax

[Chris Knipe]

echo ATA > /dev/ttySX &;
/your/command/to/receive/the/fax/from/the/answered/modem

?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Knoell" <jens@ing.twinwave.net>
To: "Linux Admin ML" <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 6:20 AM
Subject: Receiving a fax


> Following situation:
> - Incoming call gets picked up by a human (i.e. picks up phone)
> - Human realizes it's an incoming fax, and signals the linux box to
receive
> the fax
>
> Problem: How do I force Linux to start receiving a fax since there is no
> RING signal anymore (silly human picked up phone first)? I've tried with
> mgetty, hylafax and efax - none of these seem to have any means of forcing
> them to pick up the line and start receiving?
>
> Anyone got a solution or idea to that particular problem? I kinda feel I
> overlooked something trivial, just not sure what.
>
> Thanks
> Jens
>
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