The Sunday 2004-04-04 at 21:31 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At one time I had a FAX program that would _send_ faxes from Windows. I thought it was helpful, even tho I only used it a few times. But I have a feeling that anyone who needs serious FAX capability, particularly to receive, would be far better off to buy an inexpensive FAX machine, and pay for a separate telephone line. Just my 2 cents. --doug
I wouldn't... except the separate phone line, that is a must. I would use a server, probably with hylafax, and a two phone jacks modem. Then, I would also plug an external standalone fax machine conected to the output jack of the modem. If the computer is down, the external fax would pick it up. Also, I think I could get a combo fax-printer, so that hylafax would print the received faxes to the fax machine doubling up as printer. The advantages are: - The received faxes are filed on disk, and can be read from the network. - I can send from any PC. - I can manually send from the external fax machine as well (either that, or I have to manually scan pages and compose a fax on a PC with appropiate software) That's, of course, for any serious bussiness, not for a home setup or low usage. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson