Kris:
>I was thinking of sending plain text - nothing fancy - just to be able to
>give daily reports of statistics. I'm doing this for a refrigeration unit
>and i'd like to supply a list of temperatures throughout the day as a
>hardcopy to the contractor.
>
>I am suprised that i have not seen this idea before. Seems like an easy way
>to keep computer illiterate types in touch with their products in the field.

Jan-Erik:
>Hm, there is nothing like "plain text" when
>faxing. Faxes only "understand" bitmapped
>graphic data coded according to the standards
>mentioned by Alex. Your PIC has to create
>the bitmap (possibly one "row" at a time, but
>anyway) before sending it to the modem.

There is a plain text mode that faxes use actually. I used it a lot
when I wrote a DOS application that could fax orders to suppliers
via a 9600/2400 baud fax/modem. In text mode you just feed it
the text file IIRC. It was a very fast way to fax. No encoding to do,
just plain ASCII text with CR/LF, etc. If you only want to send out
messages from the PIC, that's the way to go. :-)
David...

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