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- From: rbui@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Robert Bui)
- Subject: Re: Can it be done?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.065646.16007@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
- References: <93024.144440GNR100@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:56:46 GMT
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- In article <93024.144440GNR100@psuvm.psu.edu> <GNR100@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- > I don't know a whole lot about FAX machines, so if this
- >seems like an ignorant post, it is.
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- > Since a fax transmission (I believe) is digital,
- >and computers communicate digitally, and both use the phone lines, is there
- >software available (shareware) that will enable a computer connected to an
- >ordinary 1200 baud modem (not a fax modem) to emulate a fax machine, at least
- >for the sending of faxes?
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- > Gordon Rogers
- > gnr100@psuvm.psu.edu
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- A point to make before I carry on is that I don't know nothing
- about FAX too.
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- It seems to me that me that if you implement (software level instead
- of hardware) the correct protocol for talking to a FAX machine there
- should be no problem at all. Am I right?
-