[ale] Sharing serial ports

[pete.hardie at gmail.com (Pete Hardie)]

This might be useful:  http://mgetty.greenie.net/

Says it handles faxes (in/out) and CID

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> I found old documentation that indicated such but apparently it's either
> no longer the case or broken.  Supposedly it would take the CID to write
> into the header of an incoming fax but complaints say that isn't working
> and it never stored the CID or allowed another program to use it.
>
> On 2014-12-30 06:45, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > I thought hylafax could send cid to external code. Not used it in years
> so
> > that ram hit swap ages ago.
> > On Dec 30, 2014 9:19 AM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ISTR there was a single program that would fax and handle CID - I will
> >> scan the memory banks for the name
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Finally got my replacement mail server up and running (not too bad,
> just
> >>> as fast as the old P2 :) ).
> >>>
> >>> Anyone have an idea on how to share a serial port with two services?
> >>> I've got one modem that I want to use for faxing (via hylafax) and
> >>> caller ID reception (via ncid).  However, the two of them fight with
> >>> each other for the serial port.  For some reason I was thinking they
> >>> could share since they don't need to write to the modem at the same
> >>> time, only listen to the data (to pick up the CID data or decide when
> to
> >>> answer).
>
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