On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Andreas wrote:
> I would like to use my Linux box as a "fax receiving machine", it
> would'nt have to send any faxes. The received faxes should be
> accessible for the connected Win-PCs.
> The modem on the Linux box is an old one (14.4) with Rockwell Chipset
> and it supports Fax Class 2.
>
> The easiest way would be to put Apache on the linux box and use some
> sort of program that receives the fax, converts it into a bitmap
> (preferably GIF or JPEG), puts it into a folder for http-access and
> (would be great) provides some sort of index (HTML file?) so that
> everybody could read the faxes with a standard browser.
> It's a small private local network and it's not a problem that every-
> body could read all faxes.
>
>
> At the moment the Linux box is only used as a samba server.
>
> Is this all possible and what software could I use? Until now I
> only found something for converting ASCII-->Fax or E-Mail-->Fax.
> I'm looking for Fax-->whatever...
>
Look for netpbm. That should be able to do the trick.
>
> Andreas
> --
Frank
