[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

[Steve Petrie, P.Eng.]

Hello Hugh,

Thanks for your message.

My comments are inline below.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh at mimosa.com>
To: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie at aspetrie.net>; "GTALUG Talk" 
<talk at 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 at gtalug.org>
>
> | ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Reiter" 
> <rreiter91 at 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.

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