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From: ead@lilink.UUCP (Eric De Mund)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: fax machines
Message-ID: <807@lilink.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 89 07:03:11 GMT
Organization: LILINK Public Xenix, Long Island, New York
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can anyone out there tell me how fax machines encode images?
what kind  of compression schemes  do the fax standards use?
any information or pointers to same appreciated.

thanks in advance,
eric