From: Ed Carp (erc@unislc.uucp)
Date: 07/30/92


From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Fax software ?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 06:29:08 GMT

cgwillme@cybaswan.UUCP (r b willmersdorf) writes:

: In an archive site of gnu software, I found this: fax-3.2.tar.Z.

It's on prep.ai.mit.edu in /pub/gnu.

: The readme says it supports G3 fax sending/receiving spooling for multiple
: users, and a lot of other interesting things.
:
: Has anybody tried to run this under linux? I didn't try because I don't
: have a fax/modex yet (not even a modem, really) because I thought there
: where no drivers for unix and I'd rather not use dos at all.

Apparantly it's for unix. The current set of fax modems don't need
special drivers - they just take special commands and such.

I'm going to see if it will port easily when I get back on my system.
I'm moving at the moment, and the system's physically unavailable
until the weekend.

-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG     erc@apple.com                801/269-8125
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