Distinctive Ring for Fax

Can anybody tell me if it is possible to get distinctive ring for fax on my HP All-in-One with BT Home package or do I need to upgrade to a business package? Thanks in advance! Annie

I think you should try again - looks like you
mistyped the file path /usr/bin/fax.
I have gone back to Terminal and am in a file called usr/bin/fax. However, there's nothing there--no lines of programming that is. At the bottom of the page are headers--Get Help, Exit, Read File, etc.--but clicking on them does nothing, and typing ^G to Get Help for instance does nothing. Obviously I need to do somethong more to get to those lines of programming--specifically the INIT sequence--forgive my non-programer vocabulary--mentioned in the hint above.
Thanks for your help--any more suggestions?
imac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
imac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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imac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
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