Re: (PM) Outgoing fax?

NOT a LE employee (livingston@iav.com)
Sat, 30 May 1998 16:22:46 -1000 (HST)

On Sat, 30 May 1998, qcislands net gated newsgroup feed wrote:

> >From: NOT a LE employee <livingston@iav.com>
> >Subject: Re: (PM) Outgoing fax?
>
> >> One of my clients would like to implement an email-fax gateway and also a
> >> bulk fax-system using pm3's.
>
> >You mean to fax out from one of the ports of the PM3?
>
> >nada zip zero zilch... the PM3 doesn't have software code to do Facsimile
> >transmittal...
>
> >make a unix box with a modem and it's own phoneline and use hylafax as
> >suggested... 8)
>
> How about a fax program *on* a Unix box, trying to access a fax modem hanging
> off of a PM2ER? All 30 ports have a fax/modem and *any* one of them would do.

Hmm, technically possible... but probably not practical.

You'd have to access the port and pipe the fax commands to the modem...
but that'd involve a bit of programming and such...

--
Aloha from Paradise,

Sherwood

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