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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Fax machines for the NeXT
Message-ID: <535@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 16 Jun 91 19:55:19 GMT
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Michael D. Callaghan writes
> In article <1991Jun14.003752.12627@milton.u.washington.edu> dave@nucleus  
(Dave Coder) writes:
> >I've had the InterFax 24/96 FX from Abaton working for several weeks (Next  
> 
> <<Stuff Deleted>>
> >Problems: won't answer incoming fax; still needs to be setup. 
> >      A few oddities seen with printing to fax from FrameMaker--not  
> >consistent enough to see a real pattern. 

> I would like to point out that the DoveFax, while small and frail looking,
> has not yet failed me once. 
> 
> It answers every call, and FAXes every message. From Frame, TopDraw, Edit,
> or whatever.

My DoveFax has performed flawlessly since I took it out of the box, too.
It was easy to set up, and it has handled every fax, both incoming and
outgoing, that has come up.  This includes FrameMaker and lots of other
apps, and lots of incoming faxes as well.  I chose it over the Abaton
fax by very scientific method:  the Dove sales person called me back right
away and was courteous, helpful, and friendly.  The Abaton rep did not,
and was not, so I bought the Dove :-)  It looks like I did the right thing,
by accident :-)

> What I would like to know is this: Is there a way to FAX a document from
> the Command Line? 

Sure, if it's a PostScript file.  You can use "lpr" to ship it to the
"printer", something like "lpr -Pfax_machine file.ps"

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