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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Fax modem splitter
Keywords: fax modem voice
Message-ID: <1990Feb7.162110.16808@alphalpha.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 16:21:10 GMT
References: <23687@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk> <1990Feb4.091927.23830@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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In article <1990Feb4.091927.23830@ccu.umanitoba.ca> shad04@ccu.UManitoba.CA (Dan Fandrich) writes:
>In article <23687@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk> pes@cs.nott.ac.uk (Peter Sutton) writes:
>>What I would like to know is if there is anyone who produces a device that can
>>distinguish between fax and computer data.

La Cie sells an excellent three-way switch.  It's configurable, but the
default is to auto-recognize faxes, pass through to the phone after
one ring, if after n rings nothing picks up, hand it to the modem.
Pressing a 1 to 4 digit code, or dialing a 3 or 4 will switch it
directly to the fax or modem line.  This can be done either by the
caller or the callee.  I highly recommend it.

You can call them at:  800/999-0143
It costs about $200.
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