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From: roeber@cithe2.cithep.caltech.edu (Frederick Roeber)
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Subject: Re: Device Needed For Fax/Phone on One Line
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In article <14111@accuvax.nwu.edu>, kddlab!foretune.co.jp!trebor
(Robert Trebor Woodhead) writes:

> I am looking for a device that will let me connect and use a fax
> machine and a regular telephone/answering machine on the same line.
> The catch is that I would like incoming callers to be able to leave
> either a message or send a fax!

Such things exist.  I have seen a combination FAX/answering machine
that has an OGM, then the `beep' is actually the FAX signal.  Then it
listens for FAX signals to determine what it should do with the
message.

The one I've seen had an OGM ``..leave a message at the beep, or if
you want to send a FAX, press `send' at the beep,'' but the FAX
machine I was sending from patiently waited through the voice message,
recognized the beep, and sent.


Frederick G. M. Roeber | e-mail: roeber@caltech.edu or roeber@vxcern.cern.ch
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