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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
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Subject: Re: PC to fax connection?
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Date: 30 Nov 89 06:36:01 GMT
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pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Peter J. Dotzauer) writes:
>Can a PC, equipped with an ordinary modem, send image data (perhaps
>obtained by scanning, or through translation to an appropriate
>data format) to an ordinary fax machine, by dialing up that fax
>machine? And what about the reverse process?

No, FAX machines transmit at 9600 baud for the most part and use their own
special protocol.  Some older FAX machines transmit at 4800 baud.  If it was
that simple, the FAX board/modem would have never be developed.  Sorry,
there's more to a FAX machine that just a carrier that is similiar to a modem.
 
                                                // John C. Archambeau

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