On 17/07/2019 11:25, Theo wrote:
> In comp.sys.raspberry-pi William Unruh  wrote:
>> Yes, I know.
>> I am suggesting that he get a good printer, a good scanner and a
>> faxmodem. You know-- the Unix philosophy-- small items each of which
>> does its job well, lined together to acmplish the task?
>
> It's been a very long time, but I don't recall such a thing as a 'good'
> faxmodem.

I never found a 'bad' one.

>  Either they didn't work reliably due to differences in AT command
> sets, or you had to install Winmodem drivers that used your CPU to do the
> signal processing, but with Windows driver hell (and rarely on Linux).  In
> the intervening time the drivers have rotted and the hardware ended up at
> lowest-common-denominator such that I'm doubtful you can buy a new modem
> today that will work out of the box for sending faxes from Linux.
>
Good lord. No. use a proper US robotics external one and a serial driver.

> The advantage of a multifunction device is that the vendor has tested the
> whole workflow - scan/send/receive/print - and all the pieces work together.
> As a standalone device there's no drivers to mess with if you are faxing
> from paper, and printing then scanning is the backup plan if there's
> problems with fax drivers from Linux.
>
there are decent fax programs for linux - we had unix ones working on
SUN back in the day. I think we used hylafax.


> Theo
>


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