Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:35679 comp.dcom.modems:4611 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: FAX modems Keywords: fax modem Message-ID: <6394@ficc.uu.net> Date: 3 Oct 89 13:47:26 GMT References: <2398@loral.UUCP> <3609@escargot.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 In article <3609@escargot.UUCP>, chrisb@escargot.UUCP (Chris Bradley) writes: > > On an incoming call, can the gadget differentiate between a modem > > calling, and a fax machine calling? > you tell the CCP to answer with the modem and not the fax is to set the > "ATS0=1" register, for answering on the first ring. This takes care of it. i.e., the answer is NO. > The problem with most fax machines makes your computer become a Fax ONLY. This wouldn't be a problem if you had an operating system on your computer, rather than a glorified program loader. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "That is not the Usenet tradition, but it's a solidly-entrenched U delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)