[comp.archives] [fax] UNIX network fax transmission software

hqm@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Henry Minsky) (11/19/90)

Archive-name: netfax/18-Nov-90
Original-posting-by: hqm@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Henry Minsky)
Original-subject: UNIX network fax transmission software
Archive-site: alpha-bits.ai.mit.edu [128.52.32.5]
Archive-directory: /pub/netfax
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

We have written a fax spooler to run on our lab unix network. It
takes documents in ASCII, postscript, or DVI form and transmits them
using an Abaton Interfax 24/96 faxmodem. We use ghostscript, the publicly
licensed postscript interpreter, and the Portable Bitmap Toolkit to 
generate the bitmap data and encode it for the fax modem. 

It is easy to have the mailer invoke the fax sending program in order to 
make an email/fax gateway.

We are using a beta release of the faxmodem software from Everex, which
supports the new class 2 faxmodem protocol. It should be available
commercially very soon. 

The compressed tar file of sources are available by anonymous ftp from
alpha-bits.ai.mit.edu
in the /pub/netfax directory as netfax.tar.Z 

Henry Minsky