> From [email protected] Thu May 5 21:50:34 2011 > From: Doug Hardie <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 19:21:29 -0700 > To: FreeBSD Questions <[email protected]> > Cc: > Subject: Sending a Fax > > One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes. He has a Brother 8680DN > which will fax. Any ideas how to send a file to it and get it to send a > fax? I am not finding anything beyond printing for that unit via > Google.
Not to belabor the obvious, but do you have the owners manual? what does it say about faxing? *MOST* computer-driven "fax machines" have the 'logical equivalent' of a serial port, to which you send specialized "AT" (extended Hayes modem commands) to go into fax mode, and originate a call. Then you shovel out a bit-stream that is the already rasterized fax data. I've always used 'Hylafax' -- a _smart_ fax-management daemon that supports a whole bunch of different kinds of fax modems, handles -multiple- fax- modems, automatic retries, etc., etc. It supports a very simple protocol for queueing faxes from applicatioons, or the command line, and handles either ASCII or PostScript input. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
