On 2022-03-10 15:30, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I'm looking to setup my computer for faxes sending and receiving. I'm looking at using the U.S. robotics fax modem but unsure if the two fax software made for Linux will support it as I would be using a USB adapter for serial port connection to the fax modem.
I think most USB to 9-pin converters work pretty well these days. They should show up as /dev/ttyUSB0 . efax and efax-gtk (or hylafax) should both work with whatever device node it shows up as.
I once used such a modem with Linux a couple of decades ago. But I used a script for the fax modem to make the connection. So [will it] run with Linux[?]
Highly probable if the thing has a 9-pin serial port. ISTR hylafax was a thing in 1998, so it's not like this hasn't been a solved problem for a while. The main question I have is: Why is anyone faxing anything? It's probably faster to take a picture of 1 page and mail it with a cell phone now than it is to scan 1 page, encode it as G3, convert it to analog, transmit it, and reverse all that to print it out at the destination.
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