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    Unhappy Just the fax, please!

    Running 10.1 is a whole new (and better) experience.

    Wonderful.

    But I cannot use it until I have some type of fax solution for the business and home.

    I can't believe that all the work has gone into everything but the one item (fax) I cannot do without. FaxSTF (Smith Micro) said in June that they would be X'd in the "3rd quarter".

    It is now 4th quarter, and not even a sign of a beta yet.

    Anyone have any way around this, from within OS X?

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    I am also very interested.. is there any opensource unix-based solution?

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    maybe...

    I'm not sure... but i'm looking at HylaFax which looks promising... if I have any luck i'll let poeple know...

    http://www.hylafax.org

    best of all... it's free!!!!

    Andrew

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    oops...

    didn't read the readme

    doesn't compile in os x.

    there is another program called efax which compiles nicely, just can't open the /dev/modem thingy


    so... if anyone has any bright ideas..

    Andrew

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    Write apple on their feedback page and ask for the return of AppleFax. Back in System 7.5.x, they released it as a chooser extension. it worked wonderfully, even through OS 9.x. Maybe they can rewrite the concept and make it X compatible.

    Why not? Anything Apple can do to make my life easier is worth it (i.e. AppleWorks, iTunes, iMovie, iDisk, OS X, Mail, Sherlock, etc...)

    JB

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    Modem for efax

    There are two apparently modem-related devices in /dev: /dev/cu.modem and /dev/tty.modem. Perhaps one of these might work with efax? Note, however, don't try a 'cat /dev/cu.modem' in a Terminal, as the system will freak out for about a minute (iTunes stopped, nothing responded, etc), but eventually it came back...that time...

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    Thumbs up efax 0.9.0 does the job with faxing from X

    After one disaster with trying FaxSTF X, I was set to give up.

    BUT

    efax 0.9.0(though basic) actually works. Well enough. Check it out at

    http://www.macadvocacy.com/

 

 

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