Subject: fax

From: WAlda!!! <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:31:56 +0100 (CET)

Dear sir,
I would like to send a fax using Pine.
I `m a student at the university of Heidelberg
in Germany.Could u help me to do it.

Thanks.

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Walid MAGHROUM
Address:Humboldtstraße 21
	UG-6
	69120 Heidelberg
tel.num:06221/403419
e-mail :[email-masked] (unix)
	[email-masked] (PC-pool) 
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 26 Feb 1998 20:18:59 +0100

>> "w" == wmaghrou  <WAlda!!!> writes:

w> I would like to send a fax using Pine.

Wouldn't we all?

w> I `m a student at the university of Heidelberg in Germany.

That explains a lot. Thanks for the valuable input.

w> Could u help me to do it.

Sure. RTFM hylafax, RTFM mail2fax, RTFM sendfax.

[x] your name sucks
[x] your signature is broken
[x] fuer einen Deutschen bist ganz schoen daemlich

Robin "argl" Socha

-- 
Robin S. Socha
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Vidi, vici, veni

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From: WAlda!!! <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 14:36:47 +0100 (CET)

Ihr Brief war sehr toll.
Ich bin zu erst kein Deutscher.
Ich habe Ihre Erklärung nicht verstanden.
Was bedeutet RTFM u.wo findet man diese Fuktionen
hylafax mail2fax u.sendfax?

Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe.

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 27 Feb 1998 18:37:46 +0100

>> Regarding Re: fax; WAlda!!! adds:

w> Ihr Brief war sehr toll.

It was, wasn't it?

w> Ich bin zu erst kein Deutscher.

My apologies. Or commiserations?

w> Ich habe Ihre Erklärung nicht verstanden.  Was bedeutet RTFM 

Read the fine manual.[1]

w> u.wo findet man diese Fuktionen hylafax mail2fax u.sendfax?

Those are programs that should be included in your Linux
distribution. Hylafax is a fax package for almost any flavour of unix,
and IIRC Dos95 as well. mail2fax is a perl script IIRC (haven't used
it for more than a year) that converts mail to fax.

In short: yes, it can be done, but you'll probably not be able to do
it unless you've got a computer of your own. Sysadmins tend to dislike 
the idea of people sending faxes over their modem lines.

w> Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe.

My pleasure. Here on the pine list, we're always trying to be helpful
and nice. Could someone pass me a bucket, please?

Robin

Footnotes: 
[1]  Yo, Mr. Miller! Is that PC enough for you?

-- 
Robin S. Socha
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Linux was designed by computer nuts, for computer nuts. 
Everyone else is just along for the ride. (Eugene O'Neil)

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 23:20:04 +0800 (GMT)

> in Germany.Could u help me to do it.

Contray to what what has been said already....it certainly is possible
and it is "free".

Visit http://fax.phone.net   There is also an RFC on the subject.
The drawback is a *long* email address needs to be constructed and
you have to "think" backwards!  For example if you want to send me
a FAX in Taiwan you would address me...

[email-masked]

The web page I've indicated is a good place to verify that a FAX "should"
make it to you destination.

Good Luck...

-- 
Edward M. Greshko                  Technical Manager, Electronic Commerce
GSM: +65-975-10860                 Control Data Asia/Pacific Region
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