get windows fax (xp) to answer only distinctive ring tones

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DISTINCTIVE RING and Windows XP
http://www.modemsite.com/56k/dringxp.asp

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"esophagus" wrote:

| Hi, I am new to using windows fax and I have a shared phone line (home number
| and fax number on the one line) and I want to set up windows fax to
| automatically answer all incoming faxes but not any personal voice calls.
| When the fax line rings it rings 3 times instead of 2, but I cannot find any
| way to get windows fax to do this.
|
| Any help would be much appreciated as I need this set up ASAP for work.
|
| Thanks,
| Matthew.

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At the last count, there was NO native support in XP for distinctive
ring. I believe that certain combinations of particular modem
hardware, special drivers, and fax software can be persuaded to deal
with it under XP, but the very basic native XP fax software certainly
can't. You can also buy hardware "black boxes" that you plug in to
your phone line, which recognise incoming distinctive ring calls and
redirect them to one of a number of "outgoing"lines. This may be your
best option.

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 18:48:02 -0700, esophagus
<esophagus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi, I am new to using windows fax and I have a shared phone line (home number
>and fax number on the one line) and I want to set up windows fax to
>automatically answer all incoming faxes but not any personal voice calls.
>When the fax line rings it rings 3 times instead of 2, but I cannot find any
>way to get windows fax to do this.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated as I need this set up ASAP for work.
>
>Thanks,
>Matthew.

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

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Some third party hardware devices can provide a work-around:

http://www.youcansave.com/switchboard.html
Emerson Switchboard
http://www.command-comm.com/phone_line_products.html
ComSwitch®

Hal
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"esophagus" <esophagus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FADA8ED4-1C57-4AF0-A1E9-0802683C51FE@microsoft.com...
> Thank you for prompt answer, but I am pretty new to all this computer
stuff
> and that information did not make much sense at all, is there a program I
can
> download that can deal with this, or can you please tell me in plain
english
> what I need to do. Thanks a lot for your time.
>
> "esophagus" wrote:
>
> > Hi, I am new to using windows fax and I have a shared phone line (home
number
> > and fax number on the one line) and I want to set up windows fax to
> > automatically answer all incoming faxes but not any personal voice
calls.
> > When the fax line rings it rings 3 times instead of 2, but I cannot find
any
> > way to get windows fax to do this.
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated as I need this set up ASAP for work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matthew.