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From: goodloe@b11.ingr.com (Tony Goodloe)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: RE: public domain fax software
Keywords: fax public software
Message-ID: <5218@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 8 Jun 89 15:28:47 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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About a month back I made a request for some public domain fax software
and got 30 or so mail responses, most of which were the "let me know
when you find something" and the remainder were "we have a commercial
product." I will assume that there is no public domain software to do
this. We dug in to the fax market a litte more, and found more about the
hardware. Most people are using a chip set from Rockwell that changes
the modulation technique as the bit rate falls back. If you were certain
that the bit rate would never fall back, you could possibly get away
with using vendor x's V.32 modem, but no chance in a bit-rate agile
environment. So, some entrepeneur needs to design a bit-rate agile fax
modem in a box with an RS-232 interface and some generic c code. Hmmmm,
sounds interesting :) Thanks to all who took time to send mail, sorry  I
couldn't come back with some real news though.

tony goodloe