On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:39:05PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > I already have mgetty installed, together with Hylafax, and I understand that > mgetty will > pass on non-fax calls but how does it know where to pass those calls to ( > e.g. Seyon) ?
Good. I've never used Hylafax, as I have the impression that it is overkill on a small home system, but YMMV. Make sure that you also have mgetty-doc installed, since mgetty has quite extensive documentation: a lot of stuff in /usr/doc/mgetty as well as info pages. Start with /usr/doc/mgetty/README.Debian (as always). > The remote system is a friend who is a complete computer Dumbo but who can, > just about, work > a windows comms package to dial my machine at which point I want to initiate > a file > transfer. Why do I want to do it this way round? He pays for the call! Out of the box, mgetty will give incoming calles a login prompt and allow logging in to shell. If the files have consistent names, you could script the login and transfer from inside the windows comms program, or teach your friend about sz, rz and logout. If all you are doing is initiating downloads from your system and you know in advance what the filename is, you might put something in this users .profile like 'sz -b file.zip ; logout' to automatically initiate the download and then logout. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
