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- From: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk (Diane Bailey)
- Subject: Receive-only datacomms INIT?
- Reply-To: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:00:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.836844@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- A newspaper for which I write is exclusively Mac and has no modem.
- They use Appletalk for printing but SneakerMail for file transfer - no
- server, no TOPS, and no System 7. Keeping things simple, and
- believing themselves impoverished in these recessionary times.
-
- I file copy from my Mac by faxmodem and we've identified a bold font
- which gives complete reliability for them to scan and OCR the text,
- but most other faxes will not scan, so they get retyped.
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- Since the company now produce enough publications for modem copy
- filing to be useful, but not to have dedicated expert telecoms staff, I
- was thinking of suggesting that they have one modem on one Mac on
- a dedicated phone line that would simply receive data calls and always
- place the incoming documents in one file where editors could go find
- what they were expecting, using Public Folder.
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- I thought of suggesting they have a cheap-as-possible Mac dedicated to
- just that purpose, hoping that some comms program would reliably
- return to an auto-answer state after each call - Vicom being a
- possibility.
-
- But then I thought: if there's a Mac just sitting there somebody is
- bound to want to be able to use it for something else, given a deadline,
- or some other emergency. And, if my Interfax software can receive
- faxes perfectly reliably in the background (as long as one isn't
- formatting a disk) and place them always in a pre-selected folder
- (without System 7 or Multifinder but using an INIT), then perhaps
- there is some data comms software that can do that too; without
- being part of an expensive email server system which would not be
- appropriate here. A password requiring option might be useful.
-
- Does this ring any bells with anyone? And if there is no such
- software, couldn't someone write some, please, because there must
- be lots of sites like this!
-
- Diane
- dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk
-