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From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mac as a FAX server? [Rather long, but (I think) interesting question]
Message-ID: <1991Jun9.041301.11695@CAM.ORG>
Date: 9 Jun 91 04:13:01 GMT
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sysmark@physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) writes:
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>The *real* question is, can the Mac be set up to function as a FAX server
>for the ethernet?  In other words, can some background program be running
>which monitors the ethernet and/or the LocalTalk network for requests to
>receive a document from the originating system, then queue it to be sent
>as an outgoing FAX?

>I can presumably get these questions answered for the InterFax by calling
>Abaton.  But it would be nice to know which other FAXmodem vendors might
>support this sort of thing.  (Or, for that matter, is there any public
>domain (or other freely available) software that does this, with any of
>the currently available FAXmodems?)

>Finally, I'd like to re-ask the same set of questions, but assuming an
>A/UX environment.  Clearly the ability to set up a daemon that would be
>a "FAX request listener" would be a lot easier (well, a lot easier for
>*me*, given that I have a lot more UNIX experience than Mac experience)
>than it would be under MacOS.  However, which of the FAXmodem vendors
>(if any) provide A/UX drivers for their boards?

>As usual, thanks in advance for whatever help/advice/whatever you might
>be able to provide.

>Mark Bartelt                                               416/978-5619
>Canadian Institute for                            mark@cita.toronto.edu
>Theoretical Astrophysics                          mark@cita.utoronto.ca

There is a package based on GNU's GhostScript that uses the
Abaton InterFax 24/96-D (this is NOT the Mac version) and lets you
easily set up a Fax gateway on a Unix box.  I don't have the name
offhand, but I can get you the info if you are interested.

On the Macintosh side of things, Abaton has told us that the InterShare
software for the InterFax will be available within 1-2 months.  This product
enables multiple Macs to use a single Interfax.  However, I doubt that you
could bridge this to any kind of Unix system (100% proprietary stuff, I assume).


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