I usually get documents or forms that needs to be done on the computer. I guess I'm just old school. :) The way the mail is getting slower and slower. I have been waiting for documents to come in the mail and never get it. I'm still waiting for a document to come in the mail from a month ago. On Thu, Mar 10, 2022, at 16:42, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: > On 2022-03-10 15:30, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> I'm looking to setup my computer for faxes sending and receiving. I'm >> looking at using the U.S. robotics fax modem but unsure if the two fax >> software made for Linux will support it as I would be using a USB >> adapter for serial port connection to the fax modem. > > I think most USB to 9-pin converters work pretty well these days. They > should show up as /dev/ttyUSB0 . efax and efax-gtk (or hylafax) should > both work with whatever device node it shows up as. > >> I once used such a modem with Linux a couple of decades ago. >> But I used a script for the fax modem to make the >> connection. So [will it] run with Linux[?] > > Highly probable if the thing has a 9-pin serial port. ISTR hylafax was > a thing in 1998, so it's not like this hasn't been a solved problem for > a while. The main question I have is: Why is anyone faxing anything? > It's probably faster to take a picture of 1 page and mail it with a cell > phone now than it is to scan 1 page, encode it as G3, convert it to > analog, transmit it, and reverse all that to print it out at the > destination. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Harold Hartley 17632 N. 5th place Phoenix, AZ 85022 wheelie207@ownmail.net --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss