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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: g3net: sending data over fax lines
To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 09:19:27 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <32901021.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 17, 96 11:28:14 pm
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> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > 
> > If someone is interested, I have written a relatively simple
> > encoding/decoding program to send binary data across faxmodems.
> > Full sources are available at
> > 
> >         http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/g3net.tgz
> 
> very interesting,
> but..
> WHY?????

because someone might not have internet connectivity, or the ability
to set up a proper data connection. This thing works in DOS as
well, so the average user can simply exchange "faxes" with their
favourite fax-handling program, and then process them with g3net
to extract the desired info.

	Luigi