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- From: earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed)
- Subject: Re: WB Fax Upgrade
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.225650.19868@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems
- Summary: NetFax is not "Sun-specific"
- Keywords: Sun RPC NetFax
- Sender: isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV
- Organization: Gainfully unemployed
- References: <1993Jan3.141940.19230@kegworks.mn.org> <1993Jan6.011755.9953@dms.agames.com> <1if89sINNgd9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:56:50 GMT
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- In article <1if89sINNgd9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> daniel@cse.ucsc.edu (Daniel R. Edelson) writes:
- >>For what it's worth GNU has a FAX Modem server and it's FREE as in
- >>Free Software Foundation
- >
- >Yes, NetFax, but currently it appears to be Sun-specific because it uses RPC.
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- Since when does the use of RPC imply that it is "Sun-specific"? If it uses
- Sun RPC, the source (rpcsrc 4.0) is freely available from many archive sites.
- There are lots of other platforms other than SunOS that support Sun RPC.
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