Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 02:31:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: bc979@lafn.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sending a Fax Message-ID: <201105060731.p467VgMv086646@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <723BE905-95AC-4B07-AD31-3D149F06527E@lafn.org>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu May 5 21:50:34 2011 > From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> > Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 19:21:29 -0700 > To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> > Cc: > Subject: Sending a Fax > > One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes. He has a Brother 8680DN > which will fax. Any ideas how to send a file to it and get it to send a > fax? I am not finding anything beyond printing for that unit via > Google. Not to belabor the obvious, but do you have the owners manual? what does it say about faxing? *MOST* computer-driven "fax machines" have the 'logical equivalent' of a serial port, to which you send specialized "AT" (extended Hayes modem commands) to go into fax mode, and originate a call. Then you shovel out a bit-stream that is the already rasterized fax data. I've always used 'Hylafax' -- a _smart_ fax-management daemon that supports a whole bunch of different kinds of fax modems, handles -multiple- fax- modems, automatic retries, etc., etc. It supports a very simple protocol for queueing faxes from applicatioons, or the command line, and handles either ASCII or PostScript input.
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