internet fax tools
Russell Nelson (nelson@crynwr.com)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:23:54 +0200
Wes Brown writes:
> > I know this is a bit off topic, but does anyone know of any tools to
> > allow a set of g3 encoded fax pages to be wrapped up in a *.tar.gz
> > file and then uuencoded and emailed to another place, where the fax
> > pages may then be extracted and re-sent over the local phone network
> > to a final destination?
>
> tpc.int does something like what you are saying only it is with postscript
> files. I would really like to see stuff for using mgetty+sendfax with
> tcp.int, but I have yet to have the time to go through all the learning
> curve.
That's not the impression I get. Perhaps that's how the current
implementation works, but that's not a requirement of the design.
> > Does anybody know of anything like this?
>
> tpc.int
Yes, definitely, tpc.int is the way to do. Hmmm.... Maybe we could
modify sendfax so it would either queue or send email via tpc.int?
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