It will be placed in your home folder and have a name such as 1214190520.001. Rename this to anything ending in .fax, double-click on it, and you're done!
IMPORTANT NOTE: for this to work, you must NOT have enabled fax receiving in your pref pane!
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When your phone rings and you realised you're receiving a fax and not a phone call, run to your computer, and type in the Terminal sudo fax receive. After you've typed your password, your computer will start receiving the fax.
It will be placed in your home folder and have a name such as 1214190520.001. Rename this to anything ending in .fax, double-click on it, and you're done! IMPORTANT NOTE: for this to work, you must NOT have enabled fax receiving in your pref pane!
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10.3: Manually receive an incoming fax
you can also send a fax by doing
10.3: Manually receive an incoming fax
Question: do you get any sort of feedback when using these Terminal commands? For instance, can you hear the fax 'handshake' being negotiated in both receive and send circumstances? Or is there maybe an -v equivalent of some sort?
10.3: Manually receive an incoming fax
should enter verbose mode. i've never used this, so i have no clue what it spits out.
just type "man fax" to get a short documentation of the fax command
10.3: Manually receive an incoming fax
Replying to this very late, but I just stumbled on this hint, and it actually works in Tiger. One thing: the document will not always be in your home folder. It will end up in whatever folder you were in when you issued the command. |
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