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From: tris@alzabo.uucp (Tris Orendorff)
Newsgroups: alt.fax,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: fax for Xenix
Message-ID: <1990Jan11.182433.6409@alzabo.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 90 18:24:33 GMT
References: <11785@guru.megatest.UUCP> <1707@intercon.com>
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amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:

>In article <11785@guru.megatest.UUCP>, bmarathe@megatest.UUCP (Bharat Marathe)
>writes:
>>    You first create a  text  file  using  any  editor.  Then  use  our 
>> menu-driven  program to  specify when and where you want it sent. That
>> is all to it.

>Sounds like every other PC fax modem.  Something that would be nice is a
>standalone FAX modem that would handle either a text stream or an encoded
>image, that could be used from anything with a serial port.  Something like:

>	ATDTxxx-xxx-xxxx
>	CONNECT FAX Gn
>	<either bitmap or straight ASCII with formfeeds--autodiscrimination
>	 would be a win>
>	DISCONNECTED

>and the same for incoming calls (perhaps without the ASCII version).

	See MIPS Magazine, Vol 1, Number 12 (December 1989), pp79 for a review
of the TEFAX RA-2100 Fax machine.
	[First sentence of article ...] The TEFAX RA-2100 is a complete
stand-alone facsimile machine with an RS-232 port that lets it talk to a
computer. 

-- 
				Sincerely Yours
				Tris Orendorff
				tris@alzabo.uucp
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