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From: eli@bbn.com (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Group 3 facsimile modems
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Date: 28 Mar 88 14:57:03 GMT
References: <265@telebit.UUCP> <1689@van-bc.UUCP>
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In article <1689@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) writes:
>In article <265@telebit.UUCP> modems@telebit.UUCP (Modem Mail Account) writes:
>>in modems, particularly for the Unix environment. If any of you have any
>>specific ideas on features that you'd find useful, please mail to me at
>
>How about support for V.29 9600/4800/2400 modes to support G3 Fax.
>
>Given the ever increasing number of G3 Faxes in the world, and the implicit
>problems of running fax software under something like PC-DOS I think that
>being able to dial up a fax machine from my Unix box would be quite useful.

	what implicit problems are you talking about?  
	i guess a modem dedicated to fax is a bit of a problem -- it
	eats up a slot and an interrupt & dma line, perhaps.
	and of course, it eats up $400 or so.

	are there other problems that i'm not thinking of ??
	even an 8088 PC can drive a fax modem at full speed, though the
	text to fax conversion can't be done at full speed.
	(i wrote PC software for a G3 fax modem last year -- it works fine.)