Faxmodems and Waffle

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3 total messages Started by Steve Kohlenberger Thu, 09 Apr 1992 08:31

#79

Author: Steve Kohlenberger
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 08:31

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Hello Wafflees and Wafflers and other wannabes:

I though I heard something a while ago about Waffle and FAX/modem
boards.  With todays 1.64 or soon (I hope :-)) to be released 1.65
Waffle, will someone have software to use Waffle as a FAX gateway
too?  14.4 K FAX/Modem boards are beginning to come out of the
woodwork. Some are even beginning to work.

[begin humorus interlude]

     Gosh Batman! This might even change Waffle's new usenet home to:
          comp.dcom.waffle
          comp.dcom.fax.waffle
          alt.bbs.waffle.fax
          comp.bbs.waffle.fax  (my fav)
          comp.sys.waffle
          comp.communication.gotcha.on.this.one
          comp.waffle.does.all
          comp.waffle.one.stop.shopping

     and for those who compartmentalize:
          comp.waffle
          comp.waffle.addons
          comp.waffle.bbs
          comp.waffle.fax
          comp.waffle.uucp
          comp.waffle.usenet

[end humorus interlude]

To me, a FAX gateway not only allows outbound traffic for queuing
with your favorite desktop/word processor but includes OCR, incomming
routing and other often wishlist items.

Am I asking for too much?  Maybe for today, maybe for tomorrow, but
not for this decade.

Steve

   Steve Kohlenberger, PreSoft Architects  Internet: steve@presoft.com
   Novell Professional Developer                        (714) 538-6002
   Specialists in NLM and Disk/Tape Driver development for NetWare 3.X

Re: Faxmodems and Waffle

#146

Author: Peter Sleggs
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 13:04

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steve@presoft.com (Steve Kohlenberger) writes:

> Hello Wafflees and Wafflers and other wannabes:
> 
> I though I heard something a while ago about Waffle and FAX/modem
> boards.  With todays 1.64 or soon (I hope :-)) to be released 1.65
> Waffle, will someone have software to use Waffle as a FAX gateway
> too?  14.4 K FAX/Modem boards are beginning to come out of the
> woodwork. Some are even beginning to work.

I started on one but have not had the time to get far...

> To me, a FAX gateway not only allows outbound traffic for queuing
> with your favorite desktop/word processor but includes OCR, incomming
> routing and other often wishlist items.

If the fax card supports the word processor - it should be possible to
do that, however its probably easier to just fax a print file (My frecom
fax96 will send epson LQ850 print files).

OCR on incoming, and or routing ?  Dream on, Mixing a fax card with a
modem is bad news for most of the cards out there... the handoff of the
call is the problem how do I kill waffle, get it out of memory load the
fax s/w and get the process done in time to not drop the fax call.

There was very little interest when I asked about a fax gateway for
waffle, late last year. Is there more now ?

> Am I asking for too much?  Maybe for today, maybe for tomorrow, but
> not for this decade.

When we are all on ISDN ? :)

peter

--
peters@beltrix.guild.org or torag!beltrix!peters

Re: Faxmodems and Waffle

#160

Author: Bill Fenner
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:57

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In article <4H86iB2w164w@beltrix.guild.org> peters@beltrix.guild.org (Peter Sleggs) writes:
|Mixing a fax card with a
|modem is bad news for most of the cards out there... the handoff of the
|call is the problem how do I kill waffle, get it out of memory load the
|fax s/w and get the process done in time to not drop the fax call.

I dunno, it works great for me and my ZyXEL U-1496E.  I modified Waffle so
when it gets "CONNECT FAX", it exits to run.bat with errorlevel 42, which
tells run.bat to run "rcvfax".  Works like a charm.

|There was very little interest when I asked about a fax gateway for
|waffle, late last year. Is there more now ?

Good question.  I've been trying to figure out logistics of FAX sending
via E-Mail.  My biggest hangup is where to put cover sheet information,
and should I allow people to upload TIFF's to go in the image?

  Bill
--
Bill Fenner	fenner@jazz.psu.edu	..psuvax1!hogbbs!wcfpc!wcf
		wcf@hogbbs.scol.pa.us   (+1 814 238-9633 v.32bis)

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