[ale] Sharing serial ports

[Alex Carver]

I found old documentation that indicated such but apparently it's either
no longer the case or broken.  Supposedly it would take the CID to write
into the header of an incoming fax but complaints say that isn't working
and it never stored the CID or allowed another program to use it.

On 2014-12-30 06:45, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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).