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- From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
- Subject: Re: Fax software
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:00:20 GMT
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- In article <djg2.727853404@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> djg2@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (David J. Greenberger) writes:
- >Is there any fax software available for OS/2? (I'm using a Zoom VFP V.32bis
- >faxmodem, if it makes a difference.) How much does it go for? If it's
- >ftp-able, where can I find it?
-
- You may want to review the comments from Sipples and others on fax software.
- I've been exploring this fax thing (some in our dept have the idea that
- money can be saved by getting our fax machine to talk to our OS/2 machine
- and then use internet mail).
-
- I did notice an interesting upload announcement from Gary Hennigan concerning
- a front-end for ghostscript which sends faxes. Note also that the OS/2
- 2.1 beta includes some fax software (1 page only (?)). Here's some of
- Hennigan's readme. This file is on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/2.0/comm/.
-
- Note carefully that I have not tested this package, and the modem is not
- the same as the one you've listed.
-
- You've chosen to try PSFax/2, a program written by Gary Hennigan, to send
- postscript files as faxes. PSFax/2 relies on the GNU utility Ghostscript to
- perform a MAJOR portion of it's work, converting the postscript files to
- Group 3 fax files. I'm distributing the executable for Ghostscript along
- with the support files necessary for running it because I did have some
- trouble compiling it. Be aware that this compiled version ONLY has support
- for two devices, dfaxhigh and dfaxlow. This means that it will NOT display
- postscript on your screen. If you want to take a crack at compiling
- GhostScript yourself you can get the source on the same machine and in the
- same directory where the extra fonts can be found, as mentioned previously.
-
- [text deleted]
- The only configuration I KNOW PSFax/2 works with is as
- follows:
-
- 486/33 with 16MB RAM
- Supra FaxModem v.32bis
- Connection with Class 2 fax machines only!
- 9600bps connection rate
- [rest of text deleted]
-
- The above notes are from the author of PSFax/2,
- Gary Hennigan (ghenniga@NMSU.Edu)
-
- --Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
-