[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 08:32:51AM -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
> I believe as a general rule of thumb any Hayes compatible modem will work
> with Linux. I've not tested this tho.

All Hayes is, is the AT commands.  How you speak serial to the device
is the actual problem.  USB and internal makes that potentially difficult.
Of course in a winmodem, there is nothing to talk to, the commands go
from your application to another piece of software which then talks to
the sound chip that interfaces with the phone line.

> A fax is still considered a legal transmission, that is a fax to fax
> transmission is deemed to be accepted by the recipient. A scan of a
> document attached to an email, for legal purposes requires confirmation by
> the recipient.

Given the number of fax recipients that are software these days, that
is probably a horrible assumption.

-- 
Len Sorensen