mgetty with fax HOWTO?

[mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (Mike Bilow)]

Robert Luoma wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 RL> I cannot get mgetty to accept faxes,
 RL> even though "fax answer" works in its
 RL> place in /etc/inittab

I seem to remember that getty_ps was a lot better at this.

 RL> I get the dreaded FCON (sp?) errors...

The EIA Class 2 fax protocol provides that the modem response upon connection
is "+FCON", which was changed to "+FCO" in the final Class 2.0 standard.  This
is roughly equivalent to the "CONNECT" message in data mode.
 
-- Mike