Hello Hugh, Thanks for your message. My comments are inline below. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh@mimosa.com> To: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie@aspetrie.net>; "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
| From: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk" <talk@gtalug.org>
| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Reiter" <rreiter91@gmail.com>
| > The hylafax site has a good list of Linux comparable modems. | > | > http://www.hylafax.org/site1/modems.html | > | | Brilliant !! | | >From what I see at the site, this product looks very promising for my | use: | | -- "HylaFAX is a telecommunication system for UNIX systems. It supports: | ... transparent shared data use of the modem" which is exactly what I'm | looking for (data use);
I don't think it is useful to you.
The point of HylaFAX is to support FAXing. Conveniently, it allowed non-FAX uses to share the same serial port. But elsewhere you said you didn't do any FAXing. So there is no benefit in running HylaFAX.
So for me, HylaFAX is a cumbersome last-resort workaround, if I can't find any easier way to get a dial-up modem working under Linux. <snip>