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From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: CompletePC-FAX-to-PBM program posted to 'alt.sources'
Message-ID: <78262@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 22:47:14 GMT
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I have tidied up my complete-FAX-to-PBM conversion program "cpctopbm"
and posted it to alt.sources.  This will take the incoming fax files
from the PC product "The Complete FAX" - which are not stored in G3 FAX
format but rather a private bitmap encoding - and convert them to the
PBM Portable BitMap format.  There are a wide variety of tools
available that can deal with PBM files - you can convert them to
postscript, display them in an X window, etc etc.

We've got "The Complete FAX" installed on a pc on our local
ethernet, and I'm working on some other tools to retrieve
the faxes automatically, convert them, print them on
postscript printers and so on.  "pbmtocpc" is a logical
next step, but I haven't written that yet.

Note that "The Complete PC" people seem to support 3 different
(yet similar) file formats - Type 1 is FAX, and that's what
this program handles.  Types 2 and 3 have something to do
with scanners but I don't have anything to test those with.
I probably should have called this program "cpcfaxtopbm" or something.

Steve
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Steve Hayman    Workstation Manager    Computer Science Department   Indiana U.
sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu                                    (812) 855-6984
NeXT Mail: sahayman@spurge.bloomington.in.us