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  adaptive answering
       
           A feature which allows a faxmodem to answer
          the telephone and decide whether the incoming call is a fax or
          data call.  Most Class 1 faxmodems do this.  The
          U.S. Robotics Class 1 implementation however seems not to do
          it, it must be set to answer as either one or the other.
       
          (1995-03-16)