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From: fdc@cliwe.ping.de (Frank D. Cringle)
Subject: Re: Couple of "gotchas" for NCR and Diamomd Stealth64 users
In-Reply-To: "Amancio Hasty, Jr."'s message of 1 Sep 1995 07:14:33 GMT
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 14:06:46 GMT

"Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> writes:
>Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote:
>>
>>The Diamond one is specific to Windows (which I 
>>only still use to send faxes). The 1.33 version
>
>Say Doc, 
>Why do you use Windows to send faxes?
>
>My setup over here handles voice / fax with no problem
>I tend to run mgetty+sendfax+vgetty  
>  sendfax handles all incoming faxes
>  vgetty  does voice mail . It works sort of like an answering machine
>  however I encapsulate the messages in mime and mail them to my account.
>
>For sending faxes, I just stop mgetty and use hylafax out of SGI...

There is probably a reason why you don't just leave m(v)getty running
and use its faxspool / faxrunq programs, but I can't think what it is.

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