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From: sreekanth@rgb.dec.com (Jon Sreekanth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: JDR's 2400 baud modem/4800 baud fax card
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Date: 23 Mar 90 20:23:00 GMT
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In article <5292@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, seeba@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Thomas D. Seeba) writes...
>In article <9495@shlump.nac.dec.com> sreekanth@rgb.dec.com
>(Jon Sreekanth) writes:
>>
>>JDR Microdevices (1-800-538-5000) has a combined 2400 baud modem
>>4800 baud fax card for PC XT's and AT's, for $119.95
>>
>>It's described as 4800 baud Group 3 transmit only fax, 
>>2400 baud V.22bis modem
>>
>>It does not say the magic words Hayes compatible.
>>
>  The JDR modem/fax card is made by Prometheus, to the best of my
>  knowledge.  I have a 2400 bps Prometheus modem, and it IS Hayes

Actually, the ad says this card is made by Modular Circuit Technology,
the same company that makes clone boards. The ad also shows two
other modems (not fax-modems), one by MCT, and the other a Prometheus.
Maybe you were thinking of those cards. 

>  faxes at 4800 bps.  These fax cards will send ASCII files, and
>  usually work with graphic files in TIFf and PCX formats, but those
>  details are software dependent.  A word processor file will generally
>  not work, because the software may not be set up to recognize the
>  embedded codes, or the escape characters that are being sent to the
>  printer.  Software is coming out now to overcome these limitations.  The
..
>  models of printer.  So, the answer to the second inquiry is that you'll
>  probably have to print to an ASCII file, then send that with the fax
>  card, at least for now.

Yes, but if I printed to an ascii file, it would probably lose information
like characters per inch pitch, vertical line spacing, etc., all of which
I've optimised for my daisywheel printer. Does anyone know of an 
inexpensive or public domain program that emulates a (diablo 630) printer,
and generates a graphic file format ? 

Thanks, 

/ Jon Sreekanth

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