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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can an Amiga emulate a Fax machine?
Message-ID: <2529@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 10 Dec 87 03:48:52 GMT
References: <4276@garfield.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: Sure !

In article <4276@garfield.UUCP> john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) writes:
>If so, does software for the purpose exist or would it have to be written
>specially? How about documentation on the Fax format?

I'm pretty sure there is no commercialy available software that does this.

All you need though, is to receive the data and decompress it from the CCIT
compressed format. AMD makes a chip that does this, and the data sheet
that accompanies it has a very good explanation of the compression
algorithm. If you could find a way to utilize some of the special
Amiga graphics hardware to speed up the decompression you'd really
have something.

>This question comes from a guy in our user's group, this was an area he
>mentioned from his work where a PC might be able to do the job just as
>well.

PC ? Whats a PC ?

>John


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