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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: <1993Jan7.003852.27796@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Keywords: Telebit FAX documentation
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:38:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.224840.19272@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan6.182313.22435@news2.cis.umn.edu> alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan) writes:
- >>> [about lack of documentation for fax commands]
- >>
- >>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).
- >
- >It's certainly useful to someone who tries to run a PD software package like
- >GNU NetFax or Sam Leffler's FlexFAX package, and needs to know certain things
- >if said packages fail to work.
-
- Well, I agree, I would be interested to see the fax control commands, and
- as I use an obscure computer they might also be useful or necessary to me.
- I was thinking more of the average DOS or Mac user who might be using
- bundled software when I said it might not be useful. I didn't consider an
- "average" user running a unix box... I could be wrong!
-
- >>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.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Key phrase - "originated from Supra". I got nothing from Telebit; not even
- >any pointers on where to find said documents! What if I had no Internet
- >access? The vendors should provide the necessary documents, period. I don't
- >need any vendors deciding what is "not useful for the average end-user" (and
- >thus not provided) for me ...
-
- Well I only got these documents by chance (they were on a disc with the
- fax *software* for my machine, included only for interest should I want to
- write a different driver). I don't have a Supra modem, I think someone
- must have downloaded the docs from Supra's BBS at some stage. It's nice of
- Supra to have them there. I was just pointing out that as far as I know,
- none of the fax-modem vendors seem to supply the documents you want, at
- least not by default. I agree it would be nice to have the option.
-
- Graham.
-