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- From: uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal)
- Subject: Re: NetFax & ZyXEL U-1496E ... are they compatible???
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.183930.34466@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:39:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.094518.15764@leland.Stanford.EDU>, buc@leland.stanford.edu (Robert Richards) writes:
- |> I have Netfax 3.2.1 on a SPARCstation. NetFax seems to run fine but
- |> does not get far when it starts talking to the ZyXEL modem.
- |>
- |> Has anyone used NetFax with a ZyXEL?
-
- Well, it appears that NetFax has two rather bad design
- deficiencies:
-
- 1) Heavily centered on Everfax modem (who uses
- that stuff these days, except for museums?).
-
- 2) Based on assumption that you're rich and silly
- enough to dedicate the whole serial port and
- the modem to fax ONLY.
-
- Also, ZyXEL had some problems with Class 2 Fax commands
- implementation. I was able to transmit multi-page docs
- with NetFax-2.1 and ZyXEL ROMs 4.05 and 4.08. Soon I'll
- get their current ROMs (is it 5.01 ?) and will be able
- to tell more...
-
- NetFax uses "+FDT=...." to communicate transmission
- parameters to the modem. I found that "+FDCC=....."
- does it much better... Also there's something to do
- with modem returning OK instead of 0 sometimes. And
- at certain occasions the modem returns less, than
- NetFax expects... Most of the tinkering is done on
- libfax/class2protocol.c and faxsend/faxsnd.c files.
-
-
- |> Do I need a special cable for SPARC <-> ZyXEL?
-
- No, of course not. Just a standard, normal RS-232, or whatever
- it's called - serial cable...
- --
- Regards,
- Uri. uri@watson.ibm.com
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