Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!richard 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) Distribution: na Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 28 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 -- Richard J. Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition..."