rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) (04/11/90)
Has anyone out there used PC-NFS with a FAX modem that is hooked up to
a UNIX host? Is this even possible?
What I'd like to be able to do is have PC users on the network be able
to send a file (PostScript, Word Perfect, ASCII, etc.) over the FAX
modem that is remotely mounted to one of the LPT ports. I think this
would require some FAX sotware for the PC but I think that some of this
is already available. Another option would be to have some of the
<whatever>-to-FAX filters on the UNIX host. The biggest problem I see
is how to handle dialing the phone number; that seems like an interactive
kind of task. (This brings to mind the more general problem of using a
modem remotely, without logging on the host and using tip. I'll leave
that to a separate discussion.)
Anyone got any pointers?
Robert
(I hope I didn't over cross-post this; remove groups as needed)
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