Article View: aus.aarnet
Article #434Re: AARNet fax gateway
From: Conan the System Operator
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:09
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:09
20 lines
1440 bytes
1440 bytes
pte900@jatz.aarnet.edu.au (Peter Elford) writes: >Yes, it would be *easy* to make this a national facility, allowing FAXes >to be sent nationally around Australia for the cost of a local call. It >only requires money to enable resources to be brought to bear to write >up a requirements documents, contract out/appoint someont to do the work, >buy additional UNIX systems and/or copies of the Osiris Software and ZAP!. >What I have done so far is in-my-spare-time work for the use of Geoff and >I, and the AVCC. It is not a general access facility. I hacked together some FAX software last night to do the same thing, was easy. I just used an amiga product called GPFax. Wrote a REXX script to get incomming mail, with magic numbers (so not just anyone can send). The got a pd OCR product for the amiga, and presto. Instant fax gateway!! You could put the whole thing together for about $1000 (including all hard- ware and software). Dave
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<tucker.726710943@splat>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!splat!rootReferences:
<atkinson-070193120702@esumac15.csu.murdoch.edu.au> <1ij7i1INNl3i@csc2.anu.edu.au>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: aus.aarnet Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!splat!root From: root@splat.aarnet.EDU.AU (Conan the System Operator) Subject: Re: AARNet fax gateway Message-ID: <tucker.726710943@splat> Sender: news@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (USENET News System) Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland References: <atkinson-070193120702@esumac15.csu.murdoch.edu.au> <1ij7i1INNl3i@csc2.anu.edu.au> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:09:03 GMT Lines: 20