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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!venice!gumby.dsd.trw.com!eel.dsd.trw.com!gottloeb From: gottloeb@eel.dsd.trw.com (Jeffrey R. Gottloeb) Subject: Re: fax software for 386bsd? Message-ID: <1992Oct14.220415.19640@gumby.dsd.trw.com> Sender: news@gumby.dsd.trw.com Organization: TRW, INC. References: <1992Oct5.103838.13036@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Oct5.105838.13230@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Oct14.184210.16229@gumby.dsd.trw.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:04:15 GMT Lines: 57 In article <1992Oct14.184210.16229@gumby.dsd.trw.com> gottloeb@eel.dsd.trw.com (Jeffrey R. Gottloeb) writes: >In article <1992Oct5.105838.13230@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> gebhart@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Ralf Gebhart) writes: >>In article <1992Oct5.103838.13036@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> gebhart@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Ralf Gebhart) writes: >>>> >>>Hi >>>I'm currently working on porting GNU-netfax to 386BSD. >>>I have already compilid it (need GNU-make for this). >>>With the exception of one ioctl, I only had to change some #defines. >>>I don't know yet if that ioctl is really necessary, because I don't know >>>what it does. Ultrix and SUNos have it, but 386BSD not. Unfortunately >>>I couldn't get any docs/info about that ioctl yet. >>>Another problem is, I am currently very busy with other things, >>>so it will take at least another month, til I have finished that beast. >>>BTW: I'm working with a ZyXEL 1496E. >>> >> >>I forgot some things to mention. >>I used Version 3.2.1 of GNU-fax >> >>and is there anyone who can tell me what >> >>ioctl(fd, TCXONC, TCOOFF); exactly does ? >> >>I know it has something to do with XON/XOFF, but is so special to it, >>can it be replaced by one of the usual XON/XOFF-related ioctl ? >> >> >> Snake >> > > >I've got most of done and am testing it right now. I am able to send faxes >out via the spooler but I am having difficulty receiving faxes. The problem >seems to be a time-out problem after receiving the CONNECT message. > >One thing I found out about the ZyXEL's is that they are not returning >Class 2 values that are strings (eg. FCSI, FTSI) properly. The values >should have double-quotes around them (eg. +FCSI:"18005551212") but do not >(at least with the V5.02 ROMSs). > >I also needed to increase the timeout value TIMEOUT_ANSWER in c2proto.h from >15 seconds to 60 seconds to allow for long carrier detect times (all those >protocols :-). > >Something that made by efforts easier was a patchfile that was posted here >earlier. If you don't have it, email me. Actually it was comp.dcom.modems. My mistake. > >I don't remember at the moment what I changed that ioctl to but I can check >tonight. > >Jeff Gottloeb >gottloeb@gumby.dsd.trw.com