Program Tiger/iMac G5 to recognize distinctive ring for fax

I have been advised by my phone company that I need to program my computer to recognize the distinctive ring for the telephone number dedicated to the computer. Of course, there is no such selection in "receiving faxes." I went to the site:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031111132356616&query=distinctive +ring
and tried their suggestion--though it's for Jaguar. With some trepidation--given the warnings, I got as far as terminal, sudo pico usr/bin/fax, but when I hit enter--no such file, or some such reply. There must be a way to program this gold standard to answer a distinctive ring--which does not seem to be a unique problem.
Any ideas???
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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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