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Re: [Sheflug] Fax server



Chris Johnson  wrote:

> Our office fax machine has decided to start playing up.  Has anyone used a
> Linux box to send/receive faxes?  We've got a spare PC, 14400 modem and
> parallel port scanner.  Ideally it would be good to be able to set up a
> print Q so we could print direct to the fax server from the networked office
> PCs as well but this may be asking too much.

    I have used my home modem as a fax a couple of times. Pretty
painless thing to set up, really. As a fax server, there's hylafax,
and there's a tutorial on the Linux Gazette
<http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue79/fraile.html>.

    Hope that helps,
    José
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