sendfax, USR Faxmodem 56K, again

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Hi,

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:22:14AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> It seems to be a problem of the way sendfax handles the fax-pages and
> some other machines dumpness. I found that with `efax' it worked
> for all the machines I tried. Seems that the data-generation code
> in efax produces `easier for other fax machines tounderstand' data,
> while sendfax data, although correct, depends on the `good-will' or
> `robustness' of the other side - but I'm not sure on this!

Actually, sendfax depends on the "wellbehavedness" of the local modem.  
If the modem needs things like byte padding (where the class 2 standard
explicitely says "no padding is sent"), the modem is just broken, and I
didn't want to make everything slower (due to extraneous padding) just 
to cope with a few broken modems.

gert
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