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In article <1992Apr8.141714.4453@next.cambridge.ma.us> simsong (Simson L.  
Garfinkel) writes:
> > I must be missing something obvious.  How does one send a fax from the 
> > command line?  Suppose I'm dialing in or telnetting to my fax server and
> > I want to send an ascii file as a fax.  Is there some little command line
> > utility like lpr for faxes?
> 
> Read the fil einto edit and fax from there.
> 
> Who uses command lines?
> .................................................................simson

cron jobs.  shell scripts.  You know, automated things.  Computers used
to be able to automate certain sorts of thing.  As a sys admin, it would be 
great if every night at midnight, my system would fax me my phone messages 
while I am away on business trips.  Or Fax me if something goes wrong on 
the network I manage.  Or automate distribution lists (yeah, 3.0 and it's new 
fax support will be here June 30th... someday we'll all reminisce about the bad 
ole days of 2.1...). In any event, the command exists, and until the NeXT
interface becomes independant from application function in "some future  
release," a command line widget will have value.

Another use is while your are dialed into your NeXT, you need to send something 
off via fax (phone message request emailed to you by a secretary).   My
portable cannot display DPS yet, even if I installed a SLIP driver on it.

A possibly more useful command/function is a email/fax gateway for the
unfortunate non-NeXT users on the net. Something like...

% mail fax-gateway@nextbox
subject: /919995551111/John Smith/Here is the stuff you wanted
(text or postscript here)

where the subject line contains the number, FAX to: line, and Cover sheet 
remarks.

If a command line interface could be had, then us psuedo-hackers (read:
system admin types who never learned to program in C) could piece together
some pretty good tools for our end-users.

-Geoff
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"The only thing obsoleted by Windows 3.1 is poking myself in the
eye with a pointed stick." - Gene Lee
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