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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Network-FAX for appletalk?
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Date: 13 Apr 89 14:26:51 GMT
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If you are really dying for this ability, then there is a current
solution:

a) ignore the NetSerial options. Because of the way the software has
to communicate with the AppleFax, networking it like this will bring
the whole down to a crawl to accomidate you. Shiva prodly states
that their NetSerial works with the AppleFax, but they refuse to admit
how slowly it works as a result.

b) Solutions's BackFAX will work in the background on an AppleShare
server. It takes some fiddleing and cajoling, but it can be done.
The way it works is that the user uses the BackFAX print driver to
make a print file of their document. They take the saved file and
copy it to the server, into a special folder. BackFAX has a magic
folder that their INIT looks in for files the driver creates (i think...)
The files that are dropped in then get sent out, with no loss of speed
for the network, and no lapse in functionality of the user's machine.

"works with Microsoft Mail" is what makes me worry about FAXGate. I
would worry too if I were you.


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