On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Erik Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the NeXTstep 2.0 or 3.0 time frame, NeXT added AppKit framework support
> for faxing.  Anything that could be printed could be faxed.  The cool part
> was that all existing AppKit based applications automatically got fax
> support via the print panel without even being recompiled.  This is another
> one of those mythical advantages of dynamic programming languages.  Built-in
> fax support is just one of the AppKit features that Apple dropped after
> buying NeXT.

Maybe I misunderstand what you're saying, but fax support is alive and
well in OS X. It just shows up as another printer rather than being a
separate command, which presumably makes the -fax: method obsolete.

Mike
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