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From: rgc@wam.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler)
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Subject: Can the NeXT be used as a FAX server?
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Date: 26 May 91 15:10:34 GMT
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Hello,
	Can a NeXTstation (running 2.1) with a FAX modem attached be used as
a FAX server for non-NeXT computers?  Specifically, we would like to be
able to send a FAX (via a NeXT) from any one of our PCs (which all run PC-NFS)
and from UNIX systems (Suns and DECs).  There are some packages for the Sun
that allow you to do this in a very nice way: you set the FAX up as an lpr
printer; if you send it PostScript, then it digitizes it and sends it off;
if you send it text, if first converts it to PS and then digitizes it.
It also handles mail (e.g. mail it to fax@sun..., with a subject of the
number to dial).

Can it be done?  Thanks very much...Ross.
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Ross Cutler
University of Maryland, College Park
Internet: rgc@wam.umd.edu