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Solaris Has Online Fax Service

Mike "fax" Moya

This system sends electronic documents as a CCITT Group 3 fax to a given phone number. The system will send ASCII text, PostScript, troff, or TeX DVI files.

 The online fax system has many options.  You can...

  ... delay a fax to be sent at a later time.

  ... send one document to multiple recipients.

  ... customize your coversheet (add personal comments).

  ... suppress the coversheet and use your own.

  ... send only a coversheet with a message.

  ... set up single and group  recipient  aliases,  phone  number
 aliases.

 "carbon copy" the  fax  to  your  own  fax  machine  or  an  ECN
 LaserWriter.

  ... send high or low resolution faxes.

To learn how to use the online fax system, you should obtain ECN #164, Using NetFax available from your site specialist. After reading how to use this program, contact your site specialist to have the necessary permissions set in place.

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