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10.3: Enable Distinctive Ring fax answering
Authored by: adam.abbate on Jan 04, '05 05:30:03AM
Here in Australia, our biggest telco, Telstra, offers two distinctive ring products. One is called Duet and the other Multiple Number.

Not sure of the main differences, but I know the rings are difference between the two and Duet is more for fax machines I believe.

On my Cube running 10.3.7, it now recognises only calls from the secondary number using the following value in /usr/bin/fax file:
-SDR=4
I'm using Duet.

Hope this helps any Aussies out there (and everyone else of course).

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10.3: Enable Distinctive Ring fax answering
Authored by: allangillian on Aug 22, '06 08:02:14PM

Many thanks for the help received already. With regard to receiving faxes with distinctive ring tone, or a duet line (here in Australia), I have found that altering the line as below:
-SDR=5
worked for me. I tried with 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. 5 was the number here that worked.
I used the terminal as suggested and other instructions on this thread ie.
Entered into terminal. I needed admin password.

% sudo pico /usr/bin/fax

Go to the line that reads

INIT="-iZ -i&FE0&D2S7=120 -i&C0"

It is line 209 on my system ... append the quote to read:

INIT="-iZ -i&FE0&D2S7=120 -i&C0-SDR=n

Change the n to a 5, is what workded for me.

I had to save the changes. I eventually found that the "write out" command in terminal, in file, /usr/bin/fax is required to save.

So thanks to macosxhints.com I am a happy participant. I have also saved myself some money in not having to buy a separate fax machine which prints un-necessary faxes and wastes paper.
Regards Allan



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