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