Fax from the terminal? Cool!

[michaelsanford]

I just noticed the ``fax'' command that apparently lets you send faxes from the command line. Unfortunately my remote box is not plugged into the phone, so I can't test it.

Is it any good? I can definately think of a circumstance when sending faxes from the shell (i.e.,m from a script) might be really useful!

[Giaguara]

Wow.

I will have to try that once with a phone line ...

(you find the instructions with man fax obvisously)

[michaelsanford]

Yup man fax gives the instructions (of course, that's the first thing I did, I wanted to make sure it wasn't some unix joke and that fax were actually some stream utility or something).

I was just wondering if anyone has used it, or how easy it is to script? My iMac isn't plugged into a phone line at the moment so I can't test it (I won't go into testing it from my iBook :P)