gwang@igloo.scum.com (George Wang) (07/19/90)
Is it possible to do standard FAXES (send & receive) with SOFTWARE only and no special fax hardware.... I have a USR Robotics 14.4K HST with the new V.42bis mod... I heard there is a program for MicroSoft Windows 2.X called Power Page which lets you do this.. Is this true?? Please email responses.. I will post a summary if needed... I will respond to all email so if you don't hear from me please post to newsgroup as this machine is not directly linked to internet... Thanks in advance! George -- George Wang Wang Associates (217) 332-4019 (Campus) -- (708) 470-0308 (Home) Email: gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (INTERNET), gargoyle!igloo!gwang (UUCP)
tnixon@hsfmsh.UUCP (Toby Nixon) (07/24/90)
In article <2631@igloo.scum.com>, George Wang asks:
- Is it possible to do standard FAXES (send & receive) with SOFTWARE
- only and no special fax hardware.... I have a USR Robotics 14.4K
- HST with the new V.42bis mod...
-
- I heard there is a program for MicroSoft Windows 2.X called
- Power Page which lets you do this.. Is this true??
No, it is NOT possible to communicate with fax machines from
standard PC modems. The modems you and I most often use have Bell
103, Bell 212, CCITT V.22, V.22bis, and V.32 modulation schemes,
with possibly a proprietary scheme thrown in for good measure (Hayes
ping-pong, USR HST, Telebit multicarrier, etc). Fax uses other
modulation schemes: CCITT V.21, V.27ter, V.29, and soon to be V.17
for higher speeds. There is no way to "fake" a modulation scheme in
software -- your hardware has to support it. You CAN send your
faxes through a third party (e.g., Compuserve, MCI Mail, AT&T Mail,
etc.), but THEY have to have the hardware (fax modems) to
communicate with the fax machine.
-- Toby
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