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From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: BackFAX problems
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.055020.22530@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 21 Nov 90 05:50:20 GMT
References: <2759@esquire.dpw.com>
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Comment-To: yost@DPW.COM

In article <2759@esquire.dpw.com> yost@DPW.COM (David A. Yost) writes:
> The way it
> should work is that a client waiting to answer the
> phone should not interfere with another one that wants
> to dial out.  It took years for unix serial drivers to
> support this automatic line sharing, but now most of
> them do (I put in a change like this once myself).

I agree that this is a problem with BackFax.

Timbuktu/Remote manages to share the modem in a nice way, so it obviously
*is* possible.