Re: Fax sofware for ADSL?
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> Is it possible to send faxes (scanned with xsane) from an ADSL
>> modem?
>>
>> I've used efax and mgetty+sendfax in the past but these seem to
>> require standard fax modem.
>>
>> Anthony
>
>No. What you want is technically not possible. DSL hardware
>communicates at frequencies far above those of voice-based telecomm
>hardware. That would be like asking if you could make a regular
>phonecall through your DSL modem. Fax machines use the voice
> spectrum, as does a standard modem. You would still need a
> standard fax modem.
>
>-Roberto
Just have xsane save the file as a fax, and email it to wherever, they
can then save it from the email and feed it into most printer filters
for printing. Its just another file format, without any great amount
of magic pixie dust involved.
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>Roberto C. Sanchez
>http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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