[ale] Sharing serial ports

[Pete Hardie]

ISTR there was a single program that would fax and handle CID - I will scan
the memory banks for the name

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> Finally got my replacement mail server up and running (not too bad, just
> as fast as the old P2 :) ).
>
> Anyone have an idea on how to share a serial port with two services?
> I've got one modem that I want to use for faxing (via hylafax) and
> caller ID reception (via ncid).  However, the two of them fight with
> each other for the serial port.  For some reason I was thinking they
> could share since they don't need to write to the modem at the same
> time, only listen to the data (to pick up the CID data or decide when to
> answer).
>
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