Re: Setting up diald to handle incoming calls as well as outgoing connections

[Ed Doolittle]

On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Derek Simkowiak wrote:

>> Look at the mgetty package. 

>       mgetty watches the modem continuously looking for "RING"
> strings to come in (instead of the modem sitting in auto-answer
> mode).  That means it locks the modem, thus making diald unable
> to dial out (unless he has multiple modems and multiple phone
> lines.) 

No, mgetty uses ESP to watch the modem line.  :-)  It doesn't
continously lock the modem.  At least get the package and read the
docs, you will be pleasantly surprised.

Ed

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