external U.S.robotics fax modem

[Michael Butash]

I suppose maybe some industries are still weird like that still and require
some sort of fax, but for probably a better chunk of a decade I just edit
the PDF, apply a transparent png of my signature I created, and "sign" docs
as needed to email back to someone easy enough.  Saves on dead trees, and
an annoyed me as I have to travel somewhere for a working printer and/or
fax, plus quick turn-around for signed docs.

What are you doing that requires such dedication to legacy technology. ie
faxing?  Nothing cheaper than free by not printing or faxing anything, and
Master PDF Editor still has a free version that works splendidly that I've
used for most or all that past decade.

-mb


On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 4:49 PM Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> 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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