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From: tnixon@hayes.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: Command Set Standard for Fax Boards
Message-ID: <3705.2776421b@hayes.uucp>
Date: 24 Dec 90 17:59:54 GMT
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In article <602@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US>, friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US
(Stephen J. Friedl) writes: 

> 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.

Sorry; I tend to sometimes have a view limited by (a) what is on my 
desk, and (b) the name of the company.  I shouldn't be so focused.  
I do, however, know that there are more than a DOZEN companies that 
specialize in Unix-based fax products that are on the mailing list 
of the chairman of TR-29.2, so I suspect the Unix community will be 
very well taken care of (probably better than the Mac users, if not 
the PC users).

>> "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.

Well, it might perform some of the functions that are envisioned for 
service class 3, but given that the standard has not yet even begun 
to be written it's not accurate to say that it is a service class 3 
modem.  Nevertheless, I'm very interested in learning more about it! 
Do you know a dealer or distributor I can contact?

	-- Toby

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