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- From: paul@tvt-k (Paul Pries)
- Subject: Re: Can it be done?
- Organization: >Televerket Utbildning, Utf
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:06:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.130628.12932@tvt-k>
- References: <93024.144440GNR100@psuvm.psu.edu> <1993Jan26.065646.16007@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- rbui@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Robert Bui) writes:
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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?
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- No way, Jose! Can't be done that way.
- Fax'es use either V.17 or one of the V.27 modulation methods, V.27ter I think.
- An ordinary 1200 bps modem uses V.22 or some kind of Bell standard, not the sameat all...
- Sorry.
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