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From: glen@aecom.yu.edu (Glen M. Marianko)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Can a UNIX system FAX outbound?
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Date: 20 Dec 89 02:23:47 GMT
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Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
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I'm looking for a standalone FAX-modem that could be attached somehow
(probably via serial port) to a UNIX box for the purpose of sending
outbound FAX messages.  The concept is there is some kind of
database and users searching it and when they've found what they're
searching for they need to FAX that data out someplace.  Conceptually,
if the FAX-modem could receive straight ASCII or even formatted in
some known way (like VT-100 to build a screen-image) and then take
that data, bit-map it into FAX format and dial ... great!

Anyone know of such a FAX-modem.  Anyone actually doing something
like this under UNIX.  Anyone FAXing AT ALL under UNIX?

Thanks!


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