[PLUG] Faxing -- Solid Progress

[Tim Wescott]

Thanks to advice here, and someone with a surplus modem who generously 
gave it up to me* I am now faxing.  Once I had a modem that Ubuntu could 
actually talk to the process was fairly easy and direct.  There was some 
comment in the set up lists about my modem and "bit reversing" which 
motivated me to send a test fax to my brother's shop -- but it worked, 
so all is well.

You may hear from me again on this score -- I'd like to be able to set 
things up so that there's a fax server that we can all use as a regular 
old printer, but (a) I don't know how well Ubuntu supports faxing across 
the network, and (b) it'd mostly be to support my wife's Windows Vista 
machine, which can only see my Ubuntu machine off and on.  So I may do 
this, or I may just make her come downstairs to my machine when she 
wants to fax something.

* This is a skill I really ought to learn -- I'm so much of a pack rat 
that I avoid garage sales because I snap up _other_ people's junk to 
jealously guard until the end of my days.

-- 
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
Voice: 503-631-7815
Cell:  503-349-8432
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