I think you are correct.  Text emissions have some sort of code which 
indicates the character to be transmitted.  Such codes are Morse, 
Baudot, ASCII, and Varicode to name a few.  Digital facsimile is 
pixilated and the pixel's intensity is represented numerically as in 
bitmap images.  Pixels are simple black or white with simple images 
modes like Hellscrieber.  Analog facsimile is most commonly a tone 
frequency which represents the intensity of a line drawn horizontally 
with respect to the image.  Data when it is not telemetry or 
telecommand is anything else that is not text or image.

73,

Mark N5RFX

>Since it can be transmitted in either analog or digital form with almost
>any kind of modulation and there are no encoding restrictions, a fax
>seems to be any printable document -- even if it isn't printed immediately.


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