external U.S.robotics fax modem

[Matt Graham]

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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