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Re: fax

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From: Jason Stokes
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 00:00
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On 29 Apr 1997 00:18:26 GMT, David Gibson <david@brucehall20.anu.edu.au> wrote:

>: It's as silly as emacs doing news....

>	Really. And if a getty doesn't handle faxes, how else do you propose
>handling dial-in terminals and faxes on the same serial line.

Maybe mgetty could hand over to efax?

It just offends against the idea of Unix being modular, when we get such
things.  It took me a very long time to work out what a getty actually
*does* - it's not easy for the users to confuse things that way.

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Jason Stokes: j.stokes @ bohm.anu.edu.au
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From: j.stokes@OUT-DAMNED-SPAM.bohm.anu.edu.au (Jason Stokes)
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Date: 1997/04/29
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