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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: text->group 3 fax conversion software (not: harmful networks)
Message-ID: <964@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 89 06:26:45 GMT
References: <8912190349.AA22939@cheetah.nyser.net> <22979.630044353@cheetah.nyser.net> <1450@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
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In article <1450@lakesys.lakesys.com> jtk@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Klein) writes:
!
!A freely distributed e-mail interface with a nice GUI would help. Perhaps

	i don't think you'll see *free* GUI's for faxmodem control
	for a while yet.  at least not until the extended Hayes AT
	command set for fax is implemented and fully standardized.

	for now, faxmodem software is tied to individual faxmodems;
	every brand has a different interface!  i don't know of a one
	which has implemented the Hayes AT-fax standard.

!ELM with a PM/Motif interface. It would be nice to draft a standard for
!encapsulating FAX bitmaps as well as other graphic formats. A freeware
!conversion of e-mail to FAX would be nice.

	it is nice!  it's included with the PBMPLUS toolkit,
	along with lots more suave X-ish filters.  

!Proposed e-mail fixes.
!
!	1. FAX <=! e-mail gateways.

	there are a few of us out there who will fax email to our local
	area codes.  there hasn't been much interest, though.  only
	4 people have asked me to fax things (Boston).

!	2. Develop a global addressing scheme.
!
!	3. Develop a simple user interface.
!
!	4. Intergrate graphics, (voice?, vidio???) etc.
!
!Can't be that hard.

	it wasn't!  unfortunately, i've got this nasty bug
	in this email2fax gateway here:  all it seems to send
	out is a fax of my cat, regardless of the input email!









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