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From: attcan!utzoo!henry@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: FAX on Sun
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 14 Mar 89 02:49:49 GMT
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In article <8902172212.AA01069@starwolf.gemed.com> you write:
>Specifically, he's looking for something to convert Sun raster files to
>FAX format (whatever that is) and the be able to feed that to a program
>which would send it over his modem to another site.  (with a fax machine)

He's aware, I hope, that he can't talk to a FAX machine with a normal
computer modem?  FAX machines use non-standard modems.  Well, they *are*
standardized, they're just different -- similar in some ways, but not the
same.  He'll need a FAX modem.

	Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
	uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu