On Tuesday 27 December 2005 10:57, Rony Bill wrote:

JTD wrote:

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Fax? I thought that was obsolete. In the 80s and early 90s I sent and recieved 20 to 30 a day. This has fallen to 2 in the whole of 2005. Scan and mail is a lot cheaper and far more accurate for the rare doc that is required as a facsimile of the original.

True. Fax messaging is getting rare but it is still very much in use. A lot of my clients now want fax software loaded in their pc so that they can avoid using a fax machine. Windows XP now comes with an inbuilt fax software that makes things easier. I am looking for something like that in linux for those who use external modems.

hylafax, gfax, tkhylafax, movifax. Hylafax was common and in use 4 yrs ago. U can easily build a mail to fax gateway-relay, saving your multilocation client several thousand on STD and even more on ISD. <Glorification on> btw i used to design fax machines and built several prototypes, including a fax relay network and a telex-fax gateway in the days when dialing several places in India (particularly Delhi, Gauhati) required a steady supply of spare index fingers.

rgds jtd