Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!fjs From: fjs@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax Subject: Re: Faxing -*WITHOUT*- additional hardware? Keywords: Faxing, hardware Message-ID: <1991Apr23.094205.7271@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 09:42:05 GMT References: Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 24 nicholas@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au (Nicholas Yue) writes: >G'day, > I was wondering if it is possible to generate fax to a given telephone number >without the use of additional hardware e.g. modems, etc... > Is it possible to use existing facilities like TCP/IP etc..., or program like >tip. Any ideas, comments?? > I have got program to generate the fax itself, e.g. pbmplus, etc.. >Thanks In Advance. >Please e-mail me if possible >E-mail :- nicholas@cs.uwa.oz.au >-- >----------------------------<<<<<<********>>>>>>>>>--------------------------- >Office: University of Western Australia Home phone: +061 386-3320 > Crawley, WA 6009 > Physic Extension Buliding, A fax machine is a modem, with its standard modulation-demodulation method. You can create the bitmap, but if this bitmap is not turned from digital to analogue you can not send it to another fax machine through the telephone lines. - Fernando