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- From: kaufman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
- Subject: Re: Class 2 FAX modem AT commands documentation (Re: Telebit FAX upgrade)
- Message-ID: <kaufman.726512394@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Keywords: Telebit FAX documentation
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- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <1993Jan6.100623.15326@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan6.182313.22435@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan7.231020.10297@netcom.com> <1993Jan8.103514.18304@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:59:54 GMT
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- earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:
-
- >Even if Telebit was enjoined from distributing a version of the modem commands
- >for FAX, by CCITT or otherwise, don't you think that the least they could do
- >is to *tell* you that, and direct you to where you *can* purchase them? If I
- >had no Usenet access, I'd have no idea what to do/where to go. That is part
- >of my point - a little information is better than no information, which is what
- >I got for my $99 - no information.
-
- ->If yes, I think you shouldn't flame Telebit that much. Anyway, if you need
- ->those docs, I think you can buy them CCITT directly, though they are likely
- ->to be expensive. BTW, I think all of the FAX modems which conforms to the
- ->CCITT standards use the same set of commands for basic FAX capabilities (like
- ->the AT commands for low speed data modems), e.g. they all use AT+FCLASS=? to
- ->determined the supported FAX protocols.
-
- Actually, what Telebit needs to distribute is documentation of what *they*
- support. This may or may not be the entire CCITT standard, and could include
- a disclaimer to that effect. But surely there can be no problem with merely
- documenting their own code.
-
- --
- Marc Kaufman (kaufman@CS.Stanford.EDU)
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