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From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.questions
Subject: FAX on UNIX / TCP/IP Networks with PC's
Summary: PC access to UNIX based FAX modem?
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Date: 11 Apr 90 15:22:13 GMT
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Has anyone out there used PC-NFS with a FAX modem that is hooked up to
a UNIX host?  Is this even possible?

What I'd like to be able to do is have PC users on the network be able
to send a file (PostScript, Word Perfect, ASCII, etc.) over the FAX
modem that is remotely mounted to one of the LPT ports.  I think this
would require some FAX sotware for the PC but I think that some of this
is already available.  Another option would be to have some of the 
<whatever>-to-FAX filters on the UNIX host.  The biggest problem I see 
is how to handle dialing the phone number; that seems like an interactive
kind of task.  (This brings to mind the more general problem of using a 
modem remotely, without logging on the host and using tip.   I'll leave
that to a separate discussion.)

Anyone got any pointers?

Robert
(I hope I didn't over cross-post this; remove groups as needed)
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Robert L. Howard  (GTRI/STL/MSD)             (404) 528-7165
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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