jim@piggy.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick) (12/30/90)
OK, so I bought a fax board. It's been fun and useful. However, it is
rather limited. I'm stuck with using the FaxIt software that came with the
board (Smart One Fax 9624). It's not bad software, but I don't really
like it. Is there some sort of standard way of sending faxes of PC boards?
If so, please somebody post it! Or at least a standard way which boards
using FaxIt software talk?
The reason I ask is that I am moving to a 386 with some sort of Unix over
the next month. I don't really want to have to keep an additional DOS
machine around which needs to be on all the time to receive faxes. I also
don't want to attempt running FaxIt under VP/ix or some other DOS emulator.
Ideally I'd like a program which I could pass a phone number, g3 format file
and various options to control fine mode, number of attempts to make, etc.
Then some spooler would take care of sending the things out and catching
incoming faxes as well.
The bottom line is that I already have all the info of how to make a g3
format file, and how to do a spooler, etc. The only piece I'm missing is
the way to actually get the fax out to the fax board, and receive incoming
faxes.
Thanks for any and all assistance.
Jim Lick
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jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu | Soon: jim@cave.sba.ca.us tnixon@hayes.uucp (12/31/90)
In article <7918@hub.ucsb.edu>, jim@piggy.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick) writes: > Is there some sort of standard way of sending faxes of PC boards? Yes, there is, but your modem probably does not implement it. Technical Committee TR-29 of the Telecommunications Industry Association recently adopted a new standard, ANSI/EIA/TIA-578, which specifies the commands (in Hayes AT command set format) to control serial-interface fax modems. TIA-578 is a very simple set of commands which requires virtually all of the intelligence to be in the PC software; this level of "service" from a fax modem is known as "Class 1". The committee is close to completion of work on a "Class 2" set of services, which moves virtually all of the T.30 protocol management out into the modem (but the T.4 image handling is still in the PC). The first round of balloting on the Class 2 standard failed because a few companies thought it still required too much T.30 support from the PC software, so the standard is being refined and should go out for ballot again within a couple of months. The Class 2 standard is the one that is likely to be widely implemented in modems from a variety of manufacturers. I have no idea what the interface is for your modem. Since there's been no standard until very recently, most fax modems use proprietary interfaces, and require you to use only the software that came with the modem. That will change once the standard is promulgated, but it will probably be a year before standard modems and software are available and interchangable. -- Toby -- Toby Nixon, Principal Engineer | Voice +1-404-449-8791 Telex 151243420 Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc. | Fax +1-404-447-0178 CIS 70271,404 P.O. Box 105203 | UUCP uunet!hayes!tnixon AT&T !tnixon Atlanta, Georgia 30348 USA | Internet hayes!tnixon@uunet.uu.net