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- From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
- Subject: Re: A Telebit FAX upgrade FLAME (Was: "Re: WB Fax Upgrade")
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.234935.3349@sj.ate.slb.com>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 23:49:35 GMT
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- Graham Allan (alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- The manual that came with my Zoom v.32bis FAXmodem documents the FAX commands.
-
- For such a cheap modem (works well for me though), I have to admit that the
- manual is quite good.
-
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