[ale] Sharing serial ports

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Dec 30 09:45:45 EST 2014


I thought hylafax could send cid to external code. Not used it in years so
that ram hit swap ages ago.
On Dec 30, 2014 9:19 AM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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