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Re: Hylafax future



>This may or may not be a disavantage, depending on whether you want to
>use samba for anything else.  It gives you the advantage of being able
>to store cover pages and lists on the server, usable by both unix and
>windows connections, although you need to work out a way to pass the
>commands to use them.  
>
...
>The missing piece with either technique is a database-like phonebook
>so you can easily send to selected groups.  This should have some
>way of combining private and system-wide lists.  LDAP would work but
>it is much more complicated than samba to install and maintain.
>
Yes - this makes it look more and more like a solution based on email.
(i dont imagine you would see an available LDAP solution this millenium)

>> PS Other people have tried to reverse engineer the MS-Fax protocol ie no
>> need for a special client but as yet noone as far as i know has succeeded.
>
>I think the data is encrypted in some undocumented format.

They use a  file format 'awd'(i think) that i've never seen anywhere else,
apparently microsoft is working on new fax software for windows NT -
personal fax for NT workstation(to begin with, expanding later to full
faxserver for NT).
Personal Fax apparently uses tiff files, they've thrown away the awd file
format

Robert



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