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From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Re: FAX Modems
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Date: 23 Oct 90 01:04:55 GMT
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Erik Kay (erikkay@athena.mit.edu) believes:
>My impression was that any group III fax modem would work with 2.0.

What an odd thing to think!  I suppose if something like the Hayes command
set for modems had been standardized for fax modems, this might be possible,
but unfortunately, that's not the case.  (And as someone who has wrestled
with "Hayes-compatible" modems, I know it's not particularily likely for
them either.  This is part of the reason there is a brand preference for
Trailblazer modems on Unix systems with their myriad of special registers.)

It would be nice to be wrong about this, but I suspect I'm not.

Mark Adler
madler@piglet.caltech.edu