NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/vms/18034

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From: [e-mail] ("Paul Robinson")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re:  VMS FAX Software ?
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Date: 16 Nov 92 03:19:14 GMT
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The Man From Mars, "Michael Smith" ([e-mail]) says:

>Does anybody know of any public domain FAX software for VMS. and where
>to pick it up from ??

FAX software requires the program be integrated with the type of fax
processor for the particular fax chip and card.  Fax programs written
for, say, an Intel Satisfaction board for a PC would not work the same
as one written for, say, a modem hooked to a serial port on the VAX.

Maybe someone on Info Vax knows; the University of Wisconsin was running
a test demonstration last year of doing faxes via Internet, in which you
sent a fax to the U.S. phone number via a specificiation address, and
the software forwarded it.

You might try sending a message to [e-mail] (I think
that's right) and ask them about it.  Or send a message to the Libernet
news group ([e-mail]) and send a message asking someone if
they still have the id of the contact person at the University of
Wisconsin who was doing that.

Here's an example of how they were sent:

To: /fax=3014927617/attn=paul.robinson/s=[e-mail]

I think they said they were using PP with ISODE connected to a $900
fax modem from some Japanese company, Hitachi or Sharp or something.

--- Paul Robinson -- [e-mail]