GSRGAAO@TECHNION.BITNET (David Tal) (01/11/91)
Re: My query of 6.1.91 asking about FAX format.
I received a number of private responses to my query of 6.1.91, in
which I asked about FAX format on a PC. It seems that not all fax card
manufacturers store their FAX's in ".FAX" format. Some use .PCX. Which
costs a lot of waiting around time unless you have a 60 MHz 80586 based
computer.
The ".FAX" format in which I am interested is the one which is read
by several FAX2PCX.exe's which I have found, and which is internally
stored on systems using a package called JTFAX, or very similar. It is
also recognized by HIGH JAAK.
Since several board(bored?) readers have expressed interest to me
privately on this subject, perhaps it should be opened up to the entire
group.
Incidentally, if anybody wants them, I have a couple of cluge
programs I wrote in C, which will a) print out selected bytes (in Hex and
ASCII) of a PC binary file, and 2) create a subfile of a binary file cut
from any two byte locations of the original. These I used to try to
figure out the FAX format, but so far, I am stumped.
David Tal