ED>From: Edenyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ED> I should mention that I use BGFAX for DOS to send and receive
ED>fax messages. I can't recommend it since it seems very buggy and
ED>seems to have trouble sending more than one page at a time. I
ED>suspect that any fax software will work so long as it doesn't
ED>wait for ringing tone and an answer before it looks to do the
ED>handshaking with the receiving fax machine.
H host the BGFAX support maillist off my BBS, which you are welcome to
join. It's also gated to the Fido BGFAX echo. The programmer
participates actively, and it might be worthwhile to ask him about the
problems you're having.
You can join the list by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with
"subscribe bgfax" in the body of the message. You'll need to reply to a
confirmation message. And if you have Fido access, you could also join
the echo. Same content.
FWIW, I have had no problems with sending faxes with BGFax, a few
problems printing recieved faxes.
I built a poor-man's digital document system using BGFax, a conventional
fax machine, a modem with a rather nifty feature, and pc's I had lying
around the office.
ED> By setting the modem to "immediate answer" mode and putting a
ED>sheet in the fax machine to send, you can use a very similar
ED>process to scan images into your PC.
If you can manually tell the modem to send, and manually tell the fax
machine to recieve, you -may- be able to get away with an even simpler
trick, WHICH I HAVEN'T TRIED MYSELF AND HESITATE TO RECOMMEND. But it
might work.
Let me tell you what I -do- know. It is very simple to set up a phone
line with minimal "talk power." Just take a 9 volt transistor radio
battery, and a piece of phone wire with modular connectors on both ends
that is -not- connected in any way to the phone company's hardware.
Connect the battery across the phone wire, positive to the red wire
(ring lead), negative to the green wire (tip lead). It ain't much
power. It is sufficient to allow, for example, using two phones to talk
back and forth. It's sufficient to test if your touchtone buttons make
noises. It isn't sufficient to make the phone ring, though.
Phones expect higher voltages in normal phone systems, so this is
-probably- fine. I use something similar testing phone setups when I do
installs.
Anyway, if you want you can risk your modem and your fax machine. Small
risk I think, but it ain't my hardware. <grin>
Disconnect everything from the Phone Co's hardware. Hook up this simple
circuit. Plug one end into your modem's phoneline jack. Plug the other
end into your fax machine's phone jack. Tell the fax modem to send.
Tell the fax machine to recieve. Watch carefully for little wisps of
smoke to rise from stuff....
Or not.
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