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Re: Answering machine software?



David B . Harris (dbarclay10@yahoo.ca) wrote:

> I have a plain USR Voice/Fax/Data modem, of the 56k variety. I was
> wondering if anyon knew if there is some software(prefferably Free, of
> course) which will act as an answering machine, using said modem?
> 
> Ideally, it'd also be able to handle faxes, but since I have a fax
> machine anyways, that's not as important.

The getty family does this. vgetty is for voice. mgetty is for data,
and so on. Just do a 'apt-get -f install mgetty-voice' you might also
want to install the "mgetty-docs" package.

HTH,
Ron
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