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From: murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for FAX software (PD or commercial) on PC or any computers ?
Keywords: FAX, PC
Message-ID: <6117@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 19 May 88 04:36:36 GMT
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Reply-To: murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo)
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In article <2451@m2cM2C.ORG> chiang@m2c.ORG (Rit Chiang) writes:
>Does anyone know of any public domain or commercial FAX software
>running on IBM PC/XT/AT or VAX computers ?
>I am looking for some FAX software that could be run from any computers
>instead of buying a FAX machine.
>If anyone has such knowledge, please respond.
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Rit Chiang
>Massachusetts Microelectronics Center
>UUCP :  {harvard, ulowell}!m2c!chiang
>Internet: chiang@m2c.m2c.org

I have reviewed a couple of the PC FAX offerings on the market, and I was 
impressed by the Panasonic Fax Partner.  Very respectable control software,
nice features like background sending and receiving, polling and file 
queueing.  It also comes bundled with a special version of PC Paintbrush
for reviewing the transmissions.  I spoke with the product manager at
Panasonic and he said that they were working with Novell on making the
Fax board accessible network wide (on Novell stuff of course).  That is a 
very nice way to give everbody fax use.  If you like more of a technical 
interface and low level control features, check out GammaFax (by Gamma I 
think).  All features are available via a DOS command line so that you
can write intense batch files that can modify certain document and
transmission characteristics on the fly.  The user interface is a little
stiff, owing to the fact that it is basically a command driven system.

Word of warning: don't forget to include the price of a scanner when
pricing these things.  The Panasonic system (no scanner) can be had
for about 750.00 street price.  Retail is 995.00.

Fax access

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