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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