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From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Couple of "gotchas" for NCR and Diamomd Stealth64 users
Date: 3 Sep 1995 03:36:25 GMT
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Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote:
>Hmm that sounds good. What format does the hylafax want PS ?
Yes, it accepts PS as well as text.

Just check it out Doc, I am sure that you will like hylafax:
http://www.vix.com/flexfax/index.html


>
>The real advantage of Windows fax is that it is hooked
>to the printer drivers so I can do a spiffy MS Word doc
>with pics and all and then preview it and then send
>it via fax. To my knowledge there is no WYSIWYG word
>processor for FreeBSD. So the real reason is not

Yeah, that is one of the sore spots for all free unix systems :(
What is really sad is that there is so much related documentation
and software to create a decent word processor and no one has
done it yet :(

>processor for FreeBSD which can incoporate pics and
>presumably produce PS file which can then be sent to the 
>fax I'll use it and wipe the whole DOS partition. 
>I know XYWord is almost there but it requires Motif :-(
>
	Have Fun,
	Amancio

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