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Article #54828Re: Is there Fax software for Linux ?
From: Rohan Tronson
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 00:00
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In article <34036224.D57@telstra.com.au>, Brian Miller wrote: >Bill Donoghoe wrote: >> >> As the subject line says, is there any Fax software available for >> Linux ? I want to make my Linux machine receive faxes when I don't >> want to use it as an internet gateway. >> >> Bill >> Bill Donoghoe email:bdonoghoe@acslink.net.au >> Principal Consultant >> InfoTech (NSW) Pty Ltd >> SGML consulting, Systems Anaylsis and Design and >> Customised Editing Environments. > >Bill, HylaFAX (can't remember the URL right now) works pretty nicely .. a bit 'strange' to set up, but if you can bring yourself to simply choose defaults and cross your fingers it should work without too much fiddling. It's pretty full featured as software allowing you to send, receive, poll (and be polled) there is also a Windows client that can interface with it (WinFLEX) so any machine on your network can send faxes from the same modem. Rohan >There sure is. It's called mgetty+sendfax. > >You can get the latest from: > >ftp://sunsite.anu.edu.au/pub/linux/system/serial/getty/mgetty+sendfax-1.0.0.tar.gz > >Hope this helps. > >Brian >-- >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Brian Miller Telstra >CDN Product Group 30/242 Exhibition Street >ITG Communication Network Platforms Melbourne, VIC 3000 >bmiller@telstra.com.au Australia >Tel: +61-3-9632-3883 FAX: +61-3-9632-3884 >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,55134cae1e87e384,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: rohan@bluebottle.werombi.au (Rohan Tronson) Subject: Re: Is there Fax software for Linux ? Date: 1997/08/28 Message-ID: <slrn609q7p.27.rohan@bluebottle.werombi.au> X-Deja-AN: 268710024 References: <3402d48e.13150158@news.spin.net.au> <34036224.D57@telstra.com.au> Organization: KiHi Internet Solutions Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux