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From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: Command Set Standard for Fax Boards
Summary: ``all the world is not a PC''
Message-ID: <602@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US>
Date: 23 Dec 90 19:30:33 GMT
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Organization: VSI*FAX Tech Ctr, Tustin, CA
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Toby Nixon posts an otherwise very interesting summary of the various
fax standards, but the post is peppered with:

> [...] performed in the PC software.  The Class 2 standard has been through 
> [...] T.4 functions between the modem and PC, and the lack of a way to 
> [...] be placed in the modem, with the PC able to provide ASCII text, font 
> [...] remain in the PC software, and that TR-29.2 should not go beyond 
> [...] between the modem chipset and the PC).  Others are quite 

I would like to remind everybody that not all computer fax is done
on a PC.  A number of companies (including ours) provide computer fax
under UNIX, and a couple of friends support it on VMS and even on the
Wang OS.

> "Service Class 3" is still very much in the definition phase.  The 
> concept is that most or all of T.4 (image encoding) functions would 
> be placed in the modem, with the PC able to provide ASCII text, font 
> designs, graphic images in their native formats (PostScript, PCX, 
> etc) directly to the modem.

The Fujitsu dexNET 200 modem is an excellent service class 3 modem.

     Steve, fax-kind-of-guy

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Stephen J. Friedl, KA8CMY  /  3B2-kind-of-guy  /  Tustin, CA / 3B2-kind-of-guy
+1 714 544 6561  / friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US  / {uunet,attmail}!mtndew!friedl

Why not add Hollerith fields to printf()?