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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: netfax (was: Re: 3b1 internal modem-flow control)
- Message-ID: <3759@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 12:57:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug22.135202.6143@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <BtHxo5.JEq@hico2.westmark.com> <1992Aug24.204232.3428@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM>
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- In article <1992Aug24.204232.3428@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM> bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM (Bruce Lilly) writes:
- >In article <BtHxo5.JEq@hico2.westmark.com> kak@hico2.westmark.com wrote:
- >>I have gotten a copy of the netfax software (from ftp.uu.net),
- >>and started trying to see if I could get it running.
-
- This is a lot of very hard work. You have a lot of hacking to do in the
- I/O stuff.
-
- >>Anybody else working on this?
-
- I've gotten a certain distance along, but it ain't sharable, and it ain't
- working either - can't even dial the phone yet.
-
- >I have a Digicom Systems 9624LE+, which also has fax capability. I've looked
- >at the "faxpax" package posted to comp.sources.<mumble> over a year ago.
- >That package has some compiled-in hardware dependencies specific to the modem
- >the author used, and specific to SunOs. Some of the bits of the package compiled
- >OK on the 3B1--I was able to get the bit-map font stuff compiled. Also, using
- >the information in the package, along with some experimentation using cu, I
- >was able to get the modem to communicate with a fax machine, at least as far as
- >establishing a connection and exchanging some TTI data.
-
- Caution is advised. I had faxpak sorta working (it was able to connect), but
- it nuked my /usr/spool/uucp (directory and all poof!).
-
- >Getting a fax package working is still on my list of things to do, but I've stooped
- >trying to get the faxpax package up, because of the hard-coded dependencies
- >mentioned above, and the crude fonts.
-
- Faxpak is probably easier for 3b1 than anything else. Certainly easier than
- netfax. The hard-coded dependencies in faxpak are a lot less than netfax's
- reliance on socket et. al.
-
- The font issue is easily resolvable. If you're intending to use this on ASCII
- or HP PCL, hp2pbm can be dropped into faxpak (it was designed for it) and
- it has pretty good fonts.
-
- I've seen fax output of faxpak (Klaus and I collaborated on hp2pbm), and
- even without hp2pbm the results are pretty good at fax resolution.
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