[H-GEN] Telephony

Robert Brockway robert at timetraveller.org
Wed Jul 16 10:30:43 EDT 2003


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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Harry Phillips wrote:

> For you maybe but their instructions had me a baffled for a bit. On
> their home page it says that Mandrake etc come with the mgetty+sendfax
> packages. Then on the vgetty installation page it says to remove them so
> their can be patch it and install vgetty from source.

vgetty is mgetty+some stuff iirc, so probably better going with the
install instructions here.

> Can't wait to start playing with it. I will finally be able to leave my
> PC in Linux at night to receive instead of booting into Windows to let
> Winfax do the job.

It is cool to see your unix box pickup your phone and take the message for
you :)  I found VOCP highly versatile when it came to arrangement of the
voicemail system.

Rob

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