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From: emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: alt.fax,comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: fax boards for PC's
Message-ID: <6084@mailgw.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 89 00:19:29 GMT
Reply-To: emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti)
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Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor
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I'm looking for information on fax boards (send only, I guess) for
ms-dos systems.  In particular, these are the sorts of things I
would like to be able to do:

- send ascii text in an attractive font to a remote fax machine
- send bitmaps (tiff, gif, or other format) in greyscale to
  a remote fax
- keep a dialing directory of remote sites by name
- invoke the sending program from the command line somewhat like
  as follows:

	fax -file c:\pix\diagram.gif -format gif -to fax.cc.umich.edu

  where fax.cc.umich.edu is a number in my dialing directory

The target application is to use a machine running doubledos and KA9Q
to act as an SMTP to FAX outbound gateway.

--Ed
Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan Computing Center electronic communication group
fax # 313-763-4434