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In message <19980220.154806.88@stsm.demon.co.uk>
          Tony@stsm.demon.co.uk (Tony Pay) wrote:

: Demon show links to the page http://www.tpc.int/faxbyemail.html that
: explains how you can send faxes by email, writing to the address:

: remote-printer.recipient_name@faxnumber.iddd.tpc.int

: ...as appropriate.  The body of the message arrives as text, with a
: coverpage.  This much I already knew a couple of years ago, though when I
: first tried sending a test fax to myself one afternoon, it didn't arrive
: until 3am!

All my tests arrived within minutes; I've not used it seriously since.

: However, they also say that you can send formatted documents with fonts and
: pictures, if you use 'suitably sophisticated email software'.

: Such software is, for example, FaxMail-2.0 for Unix or XWindows, HQFax for
: Windows, SDFax for the Mac.

: Is there anything for RISCOS, does anyone know?  Or can anything we already 
: have be configured to use TCP.INT?  (They say EudoraPro can, for example, be
: configured to allow attachments to be included.)

IIRC, if you read the FAQ and the RFC it mentions attaching PostScript
documents as a certain MIME type.  I've not used it; I keep having visions of
some poor fax machine somewhere printing ream after ream of PS document ;-)

-- 
Dickon Hood

I've now managed to find my .signature file, normal service
will be resumed when Connex South Central get their act together.
We apologise for the inconvenience in the mean time.