[gui-talk] speaking of Open Book's FAX utility

[Joel Deutsch]

Well, mine can't even *send* faxes. I tried to set it up, and followed all 
the steps as I was supposed to, but then found out-- and this was confirmed 
for me by someone either on a mailing list like this or on the phone to FS, 
I forget which-- that the FAX utility in OB can't work through a broadband 
connection,which is what I'm using. It can only use dial-up. That is hard to 
believe, but then this program is something of an orphan "legacy" 
application for FS,, I believe, since they acquired it from Arkenstone, and 
it's got all sorts of archaic, obsolete and goofy stuff going on with it. 
Fortunately for me, it isn't very often that I really need to fax out or 
receive a fax, with no alternative. May I ask why having fax capability 
matters so much if one is losing one's hearing, to put it politely (I've 
lost most hearing on one ear due to a benign tumor on that vestibular 
nerve)? I may be missing something, like a brain, but I didn't get how this 
helped, to have fax capability.
.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dane Trethowan" <danetrethowan at iprimus.com.au>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] fax program


Ah yep, its always marvelous when you can do something like that and
I wouldn't be without my fax particularly now that my hearing is near
to gone.
I've used a number of different fax applications including Winfax and
all have had their strengths and weaknesses as pieces of software do
but I know I'm really going to celebrate when I finally work out how
to send faxes with the Mac's built-in fax software. <smile>.
I had bagged K1000 on this list and I take back a few poitns of what
I said. One of the really nice things I do like about K1000 however
is its built-in fax utility, the people at Kurzweil have done a
really neat job with this and its perfectly fitting for the K1000
application to have this utility particularly when it can be set up
to receive faxes as well, that's more than can be said for Open Books
fax utility which I'm told can only send faxes, howe useful is that
<smile>.
Finally on the subject of faxes, the best way to send and receive
faxes I've found is through a dedicated fax machine, I have one of
the HP variety which intergrates with the computers on the network
here and that opens up a whole range of faxing possabilities.

On 25/01/2007, at 3:47 AM, Sherri wrote:

I'm always happy when I can figure something out without help. I just
set up
and successfully sent a fax from the program called Fax. I use
Windows XP
home edition. It is very user-friendly with Jaws. Very happy with the
results.


Sherri
sbrun at cfl.rr.com

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans," John
Lennon.

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