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From: roise@sumax.UUCP (Linda L. Roise)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.bbs
Subject: Re: PC to fax connection?
Message-ID: <1108@sumax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 89 21:23:52 GMT
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Reply-To: roise@sumax.UUCP (Linda L. Roise)
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA
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>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.

I had also been wondering about this question.  I take it, then, that even
if I were to call at 9600 baud, to a newer FAX, the appropriate protocalls
would not be available, so it wouldn't work?

Has anyone developed any software that might translate the data into acceptable
formats? Or are we talking about apples and oranges, even though the two types
of machines seem to serve a similar function?

Linda Roise, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 98122     roise@sumax.UUCP