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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: BackFAX problems
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.053144.869@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 30 Oct 90 05:31:44 GMT
References: <2759@esquire.dpw.com>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <2759@esquire.dpw.com> yost@DPW.COM (David A. Yost) writes:
>I bought an Orchid fax, which comes bundled with
>BackFAX, and I'm not thrilled.

[description of annoyances]

>There are other annoyances.  A major one is that when
>you want to use the modem for dialout from another
>application, you have to furst go into the backFAX
>application and take it out of send and receive modes
>by hand; of course, when you're done dialing out,
>you have to go back and re-enable backFAX.  If you
>don't do this, you get ugly error messages and the
>modem may have to be reset.

I have the Abaton Interfax modem.  It automatically switches from fax
mode into 2400 baud conversational mode when I bring up Versaterm, then
switches back into fax receive when I exit.  The picture quality is good.
The problems are:  VERY slow conversion of fax to print when printing on
a Laserwriter II NT -- the spool files are so big that I have to turn off
background printing if I have less than 4 megs free on the disk.  Also,
the INIT that runs things sometimes causes the machine to hang (Mac IIx,
system 6.0.5, Multifinder 6.1b9).

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)