From eba917e0f52c45e06ba46ff374987ae19179cc30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 02:43:43 +0000 Subject: add softmodem support git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/ivcall/trunk@22 e0b13411-74c3-0310-b366-a0654dd0340f --- doc/README.html.in | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/README.html.in') diff --git a/doc/README.html.in b/doc/README.html.in index 3cdd7f5..f9f3888 100644 --- a/doc/README.html.in +++ b/doc/README.html.in @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@

ivcall @PACKAGE_VERSION@

License

News

Sun Jan 23 2005:

Version +0.4 released, changes include: cleanups, add softfax support using spandsp.

Sat Jan 2004:

Version +href="@PACKAGE_URL@ivcall-0.3.tar.gz">Version 0.3 released, changes include: uucp locking fixes, ivcall may listen on wildcard MSNs now.

Sun July 27 2003:

Version +href="@PACKAGE_URL@ivcall-0.2.tar.gz">Version 0.2 released, changes include: many fixes, autoconf support

Overview

Since release 0.4 ivcall supports sending and receiving +facsimiles using spandsp as +software modem for 9600bps connections (just fax, no data connections).

Status

Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is stable and feature complete.

Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is stable and feature complete when used +to playback and record voice messages. The softfax is not reliable, +primarily due to the fact that isdn4linux is broken.

Documentation

Voice

Have a look on the man page ivcall(1). (An XSLT capable browser is required)

You may use ivcall as a Unix filter: @@ -83,9 +95,7 @@ may pipe STDOUT (or STDIN) to /dev/null.

Four detailed usage information try:

-ivcall --help
-

ivcall --help

If you want to create a sample playable with ivcall with your soundcard, you'll need sox:

ivcall

sox

$ sox IFILE -t raw -r 8000 -U -b OFILE

Fax

For receiving faxes use:

$ ivcall -a -F foo.tif 47110815

This will wait for an incoming fax call on MSN 47110815 and store the data in foo.tif.

For sending faxes use:

$ ivcall -F bar.tif 47110815 08154711

This will call 08154711 from the local MSN 47110815 and deliver +bar.tif to the peer. The image file has to be in TIFF format, +monochrome and either uncompressed or with G3 compression applied.

Requirements

A newer Linux Kernel (I think 2.0 is good enough, alltough I tested it @@ -110,6 +136,8 @@ only with 2.4) with a compatible device driver (isdn4linux). "testing" from July 2003, it should work on most other Linux distributions since it uses GNU autoconf for source code configuration.

For using ivcall has softfax you have to install spandsp 0.0.2pre10 or newer.

Installation

As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run @@ -123,17 +151,22 @@ compilation and make install (as root) for installation of

For the developers of awag (Stefan Szomraky), minicom (Miquel van Smoorenburg) and vbox (Michael Herold), since I looked on their source codes for learning how to use the isdn4linux modem emulation

Steve Underwood for writing spandsp

Download

The newest release is always available from @PACKAGE_URL@

The current release is @PACKAGE_VERSION@

Get ivcall's development sources from the Subversion repository.

Get ivcall's development sources from the Subversion repository (viewcvs):

svn checkout svn://seth.intheinter.net/ivcall/trunk ivcall

If you want to be notified whenever I release a new version of this software use the subscription feature of Freshmeat.

Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, January 2004

Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, January 2005

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