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- From: elmar@gulasch.hanse.de (Elmar Folba)
- Subject: Re: How Do Fax Modems Connect?
- Keywords: beep protocol
- References: <1992Dec29.213620.6896@gulasch.hanse.de> <PcTmwB2w165w@mcgort.com>
- Organization: Spare-time Hacker, Hamburg, Germany
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:19:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.221942.666@gulasch.hanse.de>
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- In article <PcTmwB2w165w@mcgort.com> rlm@mcgort.com (Robert McMillin) writes:
- >...
- >> Q: At what speed are fax modems expected to connect? Do they use V.32 data
- >> rate negotiation, or something different?
- >
- >No. The fax and data modem specifications are separate.
- Thanks to all who replied; this was my main misunderstanding. I thought it
- would all be V.32 or a subset at least until connection establishment.
- >...
- >One thing you didn't mention when you wrote your post was what fax
- >software you were using to try to talk to your office fax. It may seem
- >blindingly stupid of me to ask, but was the fax software you were using
- >suitable for the Digicom Scout Plus?
- Well it all started with some piece of software that came along with the modem,
- free (or at no extra charge, to be precise), and I just wanted to find out why
- it refused to work. Still, I didn't pay for it so maype it is too much to
- expect it to work.
- >
- >This is because it's assumed the controlling software will handle the
- >niceties of Class 1 (or whatever class the DSP is) operation, and there's
- >a lot of them. The standard disclaimer with fax modems is that it's too
- >complex for you to diddle with; if you have, as they say in the defense
- >industry, a need to know, please see the ANSI/EIA/TIA Standard document
- >"Asynchronous Facsimile DCE Control Standard EIA/TIA-578." At least,
- >that's what it says in my PPI fax modem documentation, and I'll bet your
- >Digicom docs have something similar.
- Thanks, again. I was hoping I could hack Gnu Fax as much as required to drive
- this bleeding modem but after all I've learned I'll better get me some
- DOS fax program that I can test beforehand.
-
- Thanks, all of you, and
- --
- Kind regards, Elmar Folba
- Hamburg, Germany
- elmar@gulasch.hanse.de
-