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From: flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
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Subject: Re: PC to fax connection?
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Date: 1 Dec 89 11:46:28 GMT
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In article <517@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu 
(Peter J. Dotzauer) asks:

> 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?

This has been taken up in certain conversation threads in comp.dcom.modems,
comp.dcom.telecom, and comp.sys.att (for unix boxes), and I suppose elsewhere.
Some commercial e-mail services will download to any fax machine you specify 
a "faxified" version of whatever ASCII message you create at your
(modem-equipped) PC's keyboard (attmail, among others, comes to mind).  Also,
hobbyist PC mag's recently have been full of add-in FAX-send/receive board ads.
These, unlike the commercial e-mail fax trans{lator|mitter}s, go both ways.
Beware, though, that an "ordinary" modem may work at the wrong speed, use the
wrong modulation scheme, and be unable to perform the initial fax/fax
handshaking unless it's really _very_ controllable by the PC (and _that_
controllable it rarely is -- whence the dedicated add-in FAX boards).

-- Fred [E.J. Linton, Math. Dept., Wesleyan U., Middletown, CT 06457]