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.
>
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