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- From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:48:20 GMT
- Subject: Re: Fax boards for HP9000/800
- Message-ID: <430128@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!hplextra!hpl-opus!hpnmdla!darrylo
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- References: <1992Jul30.155700.8682@cs.umb.edu>
- Lines: 144
-
- In comp.sys.hp, zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) writes:
-
- > If you have an HP9/800 and want to fax from it. RUN, do not walk to the phone
- > and call Devcom. the number is 708-574-5066.
- >
- > the TruFax product is fantastic. It has been a long time since i was so
-
- Also, note that there is an interesting file on prep.ai.mit.edu:
-
- /pub/gnu/fax-3.2.tar.Z
-
- This is a Un*x-based FAX sender/receiver, which supposedly only works
- with modems that implement the "new EIA-592 Asynchronous Facsimile DCE
- Control Standard, Service Clas 2" (I'm heard rumors that say that this
- standard has not yet been finalized). I've included a copy of the
- README file at the end of this message.
-
- It's free (but you get what you pay for).
-
- -- Darryl Okahata
- Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
-
- DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
- constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
- little green men that have been following him all day.
-
- ===============================================================================
- MIT AI Lab Fax Sending and Spooling System
- ------------------------------------------
-
-
- (c) Copyright 1991 by Henry Minsky and David M. Siegel.
- All rights reserved.
-
- This file is part of Netfax.
-
- This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor accepts responsibility
- to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any
- particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing. Refer
- to the General Public License for full details, in the file LICENSE in
- this directory.
-
- Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute
- Netfax, but only under the conditions described in the Netfax
- General Public License. A copy of this license is supposed to have been
- given to you along with Netfax so you can know your rights and
- responsibilities. It should be in a file named COPYING. Among other
- things, the copyright notice and this notice must be preserved on all
- copies.
-
-
- Overview
- --------
-
- This is version 3.2 of Netfax (Completely rewritten by Dave Siegel).
-
- Please send comments, bug reports, and fixes to: bug-fax@ai.mit.edu.
- Faxes to 1-617-253-5060.
-
- This is a set of software which provides Group 3 fax tranmission
- and recptions services for a networked unix system. It requires a
- faxmodem which conforms to the new EIA-592 Asynchronous Facsimile DCE
- Control Standard, Service Clas 2, such as the model " Everfax 24/96 D"
- -- (model EV-968-51). The list price is $499. The model number is
- 968-51, and the product name is Everfax 24/96D. The "D" seems to
- indicate that it's the latest one, but John Dyer-Bennet told me to be
- sure to specify the model number also. Everex's main number is
- 1-415-491-1111 for support(?). The sales number is 1-800-821-0806.
-
- The system works by running a queue manager (faxspooler) on the host
- machine with the faxmodem installed. This program scans a queue
- directory for entries from user programs. Users can post faxes using
- the fax program directly, or, with the proper entry in the mail
- aliases file, send email to post a fax. The user can post files in
- ASCII text, postscript, or TeX DVI format. They are all converted to
- postscript and queued to be sent.
-
- Incoming telephone calls to the modem are answered, and incoming faxes
- are deposited in the spooler's incoming fax directory. Nothing else is
- done with the received faxes, they just sit there until someone looks
- at them.
-
- For sending documents, a spooler process accepts incoming g3 document
- jobs and queues them. A process scans the queue and attempts to send
- queued jobs.
-
- Received faxes are currently stored in the /com/fax/incoming (or
- wherever you set the INCOMING directory in the conf.h file) as g3
- format files. You could use Sam Leffler's fax2tiff program to create
- class F tiff files from these directly, if you wish.
-
-
- Other Software You Need
- -----------------------
-
- You must have Ghostscript installed, with the digifax driver linked
- in. See the INSTALL file for information about where to get these
- programs.
-
- The enscript program from Adobe, or something comparable, is also
- useful to format an ascii text file as a postscript file.
-
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- Look in the file INSTALL in this directory.
-
-
- Fax System Directory
- --------------------
-
- The software sources are divided into several directories:
-
- include:
- Common header files.
-
- lib:
- Various libraries.
-
- cmd:
- Commands.
-
- script:
- Shell scripts.
-
- doc:
- Documentation of internals.
-
- man:
- Manual pages for commands.
-
- ps:
- Postscript programs.
-
-
- User Interface
- --------------
-
- The fax and faxps commands will print an arglist if invoked with no
- args.
-
-
-