NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/dcom/modems/13170

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From: [e-mail] (Ed Ravin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: Help: questions re Zyxel FAX and software
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:12:25 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Not Just Another Pretty Face
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Steve Faiwiszewski) writes:

>1) What MS-DOS based FAX software packages support ZYXEL?  I'm
>   preferrably looking for PD/Shareware stuff.

I've had no problems using QL2FAX.  (Quick-Link II Fax).  Not the greatest
stuff in the world, but it works.  I'm not sure if you would call it
shareware, but it seems to come with just about every other faxmodem sold
for DOS machines.  If they sell it separately, it couldn't cost that much.
Check with your friends who have PC faxmodems -- chances are good one of
them has QL2FAX.

>2) Is there any FAX package for Windows which can look like a printer,
>   so I can "print" Word4Windows documents directly to the FAX?  Or is
>   there another way of FAXing Word documents in their pretty "typeset"
>   look without having to resort to actual paper printing?

I'm happy with WinFax -- they do some stupid things with the phone books,
and it's a little slow, but it also works.  One annoying flaw with it is
that it doesn't know how to trim a page down to size -- if you're faxing
a three line message, QL2FAX trims the output page to a few inches --
WinFax sends the entire page, wasting a pile of thermal paper.

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