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ZyXEL 1.5 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Feb 5 08:58:29 1995
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 14:27:16 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: ZyXEL 1.5 released
Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl
Keywords: ZyXEL VOICE DATA FAX modem support
Organization: PE1CHL
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.networking
I have uploaded version 1.5 of my ZyXEL VOICE/DATA/FAX modem support
software to sunsite.unc.edu (pub/Linux/Incoming, will probably be moved
to pub/Linux/system/Serial), and ftp.win.tue.nl (upload).
Files are:
ZyXEL-1.5.tar.gz Binaries, documentation, example config files
ZyXEL-1.5-source.tar.gs Sourcefiles
When you get the sources, get the first file as well.
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A control program for the ZyXEL U-1496 series MODEMs for use with the
Linux operating system (and other UNIX-like systems)
This program manages the use of the ZyXEL MODEM for:
- dial-in, for use by "uucp" and other programs started from
a login
- dial-in security (checking username and password)
- dial-back security
- dial-out, e.g. using "cu", "uucp" or "seyon"
- receiving FAXes
- sending FAXes
- polling for FAXes
- handling incoming FAX polls
- answering machine (voice mailbox)
This release has some major changes relative to 1.4
Most notably:
- more versatile programming of the DTMF control, using script
files for all key actions
- inclusion of a text-to-speech synthesizer in the voice mailbox,
which allows for easy prompting using text strings instead of
prerecorded messages
- voice mailbox remote control can run programs, and send the output
of these programs via the speech synthesizer
- support for new voice modes (ADPCM4, sync codes) in 6.13 firmware
- CLASS 2 FAX is now included, as a replacement for the ZFAX support
that required use of the MSDOS ZFAX program to generate and display
FAXes
- support for FAX polling (both as client and server)
- support for FAXBACK requests from the voice mailbox
- can FAX various file styles:
- G3 FAX
- Digifax, single and multi-page
- Postscript
- gzip'ed Postscript
- plain text
- output of a shell script
these provide interesting possibilities with the FAX polling and
FAXBACK service (like generation of a FAX page at the time the
request is processed, dynamically filling it with information)
- PAGER can be called on request from voice mailbox
- experimental Tcl/TK user interface (contributed by Harm Arts)
It has been brought to my attention that the program does not quite run
on SVR4, despite the included makefile. I am awaiting patches for this
problem, to be included in a later version.
I am using ZyXEL 1.5 on a 486DX/33 system running Linux 1.1.88, with a
ZyXEL U-1496Eplus modem running firmware 6.13
Some features (like the speech synthesizer) require a 486DX or better
to be usable. Older firmware on the ZyXEL should be no problem, although
there may be some FAX features that do not work correctly.
Rob
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