Fax Software
Alan Free
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Boomer
> Could any of you guys recommend a good piece of fax software.
> Thanks in advance
> Alan
>
From my notes:
WinFax Lite
http://www.hot.ee/samaranch/winfaxlite.zip
2.3Mb
or
WINFAX LITE
Ever wonder what happened to the fax program that came with the
Windows operating
systems? MS Fax is on the Win98 CD-ROM at \tools\oldwin95\message\us.
First find and
run wms.exe. This will install Windows Messaging. Then find and run
awfax.exe, which
installs Winfax Lite. There is a read me file in the folder too. It
is named wms-fax.txt. It
may be best to first remove any pre-existing fax program on your
computer.
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John Corliss
> Could any of you guys recommend a good piece of fax software. Thanks in
> advance
About the only game going is:
http://www.v3fax.com/freecc.htm
which I haven't tried. Also, modems (even most O.E.M. ones) usually come
with some sort of FAX program on their driver CD. You might try looking
there too.
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Phasar
>Alan Free wrote:
>
>> Could any of you guys recommend a good piece of fax software. Thanks in
>> advance
>
>About the only game going is:
>
> http://www.v3fax.com/freecc.htm
>
>which I haven't tried. Also, modems (even most O.E.M. ones) usually come
>with some sort of FAX program on their driver CD. You might try looking
>there too.
Try MightyFAX.
http://store.yahoo.com/rks/mightyfax.html
It's not freeware ($19.95 usd) but well worth every penny. It's the best Fax software I've
found, and I've tried them all. Very easy to use and not bloatware.
BTW, there's cracks available for it too
fitwell
Hi, Phasar!
Pls don't recommend shareware here. This is a freeware ng only.
btw, none of the fax freewares offer batch faxing so far (one fax to
many recipients), but the nicest fax freeware program I found was
CallCenter. Very easy to set up and use, a problem with most other
freewares (if you don't know how to set the modem correctly, you can't
get it to works, which is what happend to me. CallCenter did a great
job). WinFax Lite seemed good, too, but it's for Win3x so has that
drawback in that files/paths must be short and has the usual 3x
dialogue boxes which are much more restrictive than Win9x.
Also, some people don't like it, but I really love that it looks like
a phone. I like the software to look the device it's emulating. For
me the visuals make things much clearer (as in "a picture paints a
thousands words"). The graphics while sending, connecting, etc., are
also very appropriate. Nothing to translate unconsciously from text
into action, it's being represented on the screen.
You can find it here at:
http://www.v3fax.com/freecc.htm
and here's what I mean about its neat interface:
http://www.v3fax.com/freeccg.htm
(notice the little cartoon-like image with "zzzz" while CallCenter is
on stanby? These images change according to status of CallCenter and
each one is pertinent.)
It does, though, have an annoying splash screen every time you start
it to try out their pro version, but that's the only disadvantage
along with no batch faxing. Not too bad for something free.
Good luck!
Sue D Nim
that using file attachments has caused many crashes and sys. freezes.
Figure on the time you spend recovering from the sys. problems and it is
hardly free.
Phasar
So don't advertise crippleware/addware here 8-p
John Corliss
Sue,
What is crippled about the program? Note, crippleware is usually a program
that has critical features blocked like printing, saving etc. Also, what is it
advertising? I'm serious, I've never used the program and would appreciate
knowing.
I don't want to install it to see what it looks like if it's going to mess up
the FAX program I have installed currently.
It's too bad that most fax programs have to include a bunch of "answering
machine" and "messaging" garbage. Why doesn't somebody write a simple to use,
*just* a FAX program?
I have spent a lot of time looking for a true freeware FAX program, but
have had no real luck. Perhaps it belongs on the "Wish List":
http://home.att.net/~willowbrookemill/freewarewishlist.html
Sue D Nim
experiences with it. It's "crippled" when important features like
multiple-recipients can't get done with the free version. It's adware
because everytime that you activate the program you get a splash-screen
asking if you want to buy the full program before you can use the program.
"John Corliss" <jcor...@ccountry.net> wrote in message
news:3C85503B...@ccountry.net...
John Corliss
> I'm not the one touting this program.
Sue,
Easy, easy. I'm not getting down on your case. I am sincerely curious about
this program's shortcomings since I've never used it and it seems to be about
the only thing *close* to a freeware FAX program that's out there. If I'm going
to suggest that a person use it, I need to know if:
a. it can truly be considered freeware
b. it does the job.
> I'm giving a report based on my experiences with it. It's "crippled" when
> important features like multiple-recipients can't get done with the free
> version.
I would tend to agree that this is an important feature, but it doesn't render
the program unusable like for instance, blocking the ability to send a FAX at
all would. The most famous example of crippleware that I can think of was the
CorelDraw demo package that let you create (in a limited fashion) pages and then
would not allow you to either print or save them.
> It's adware because everytime that you activate the program you get a
> splash-screen asking if you want to buy the full program before you can use
> the program.
No, that would make it "nagware." Adware is software that advertises products
from other companies so as to get money for doing so from those other companies.
> John Corliss wrote:
> > Sue D Nim wrote:
> >
> > > Call Center fax is crippleware/adware; and it is not very "well behaved"
> > > in that using file attachments has caused many crashes and sys. freezes.
> > > Figure on the time you spend recovering from the sys. problems and it is
> > > hardly free.
That sounds pretty bad. However, sending a file attachment is not a critical
feature of a FAX program since you can send attachments via most email programs.
> > Sue,
> > What is crippled about the program? Note, crippleware is usually a
> > program
> > that has critical features blocked like printing, saving etc. Also, what
> > advertising? I'm serious, I've never used the program and would appreciate
> > would appreciate knowing.
> > I don't want to install it to see what it looks like if it's going to mess
> > up the FAX program I have installed currently.
> > It's too bad that most fax programs have to include a bunch of
> > "answering machine" and "messaging" garbage. Why doesn't somebody write a
> > simple to use, *just* a FAX program?
> >
> > I have spent a lot of time looking for a true freeware FAX program,
> > but have had no real luck. Perhaps it belongs on the "Wish List":
> >
> > http://home.att.net/~willowbrookemill/freewarewishlist.html
Sue, perhaps you didn't notice that I qualified the suggestion with "about the
only game going is..."
This is truly the case. If you can find a better FAX program that is truly (or
at least closer to truly being) freeware, please let me know. I really would
appreciate it.
Son Of Spy
Sheesh! Why do I work my fingers to the bone to find these apps,
when nobody remembers they're on my site....(snif!)
The winnah!
1) Faxport Personal Edition Multiple user information
configuration. Bulk faxing. Print on receive and send. Provides automatic addition
of special dialing strings (ie for long distance discounters) Configurable startup
and shutdown options. Multiple language support. *Last FTP site to house this app,
Get it <<today>>! ~12Mb
2) Win Fax Lite The original Free Delrina product which
later was bought up by the giant Symantec..color it "hard to find"
3) Call Center Sick of MS Exchange Fax? Check out this free and
better faxing utility with a beautiful (well, better than Exchange anyway!) UI...
*Note: this used NOT to be adware...am checking into recent reports to the contrary
4) Fax Phone And now there are 4. G3 fax, voice mail, speakerphone,
quick dial, address book; sensational! (Well, pretty good for phone stuff
but good only for short notes on fax......)
All on my Apps pages...
It's one of the most frequent search terms on my site...
Son Of Spy
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robert.h.kim1
I'm using Windows 98 and was happy with Faxnow Lite but it does not seem
to be available anymore. Does anyone have the link to this? Or perhaps
an equal or better freeware fax program?
I missed a lot of this thread so please accept my apologies if I'm
repeating something that has already been addressed,
Bob
fitwell
wrote:
>Call Center fax is crippleware/adware; and it is not very "well behaved" in
I've never had any problems with it. Others here, too, have used it.
Perhaps they can comment...
Signpoet
>Perhaps they can comment...
Call Center is adware and crippleware, so it's OT for this NG. However, on the
matter of crippleware, it does everything I need done as a fax. If I get a free
Honda, but it doesn't have a CD player, am I being cheated?
Connie