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- From: alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
- Subject: Re: A Telebit FAX upgrade FLAME (Was: "Re: WB Fax Upgrade")
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.182313.22435@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Keywords: Telebit FAX documentation
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:23:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.100623.15326@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV writes:
- > [about lack of documentation for fax commands]
- >In the future, I would appreciate it if Telebit would take into consideration
- >the fact that a customer who pays Real Money for a PROM upgrade which contains
- >new features deserves to have every one of those new features documented *fully
- >and completely*, and does NOT deserve to have proprietary software solutions
- >pushed upon him/her from vendors who apparently have been provided with this
- >information. The customer deserves the right to have sufficient information
- >provided to him/her in order to pursue their own software solution, be it free
- >or otherwise.
-
- Actually, no fax modem I have seen has ever had any documentation on the
- commands to control the fax capabilities. Admittedly, that's only a sample
- of 2 different modems, but it looks as if it's standard practise not to
- supply this information (possibly because its not useful for the average
- end-user).
-
- You can get hold of documents describing the Class-1 and Class-2 protocols
- from several BBS's - I saw a copy which had originated from Supra.
-
- Graham.
-