I have had good success with WinFax Pro Ver. 8 from Symnatec. It also has a
nice answering machine and phone dialer
with speaker phone caller ID etc. If you have a voice capable modem.
Regards, Stan







At 07:09 PM 2/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear kind ones on this list:
>
>I've had my system for almost three years now and feel pretty confident
>about what I can and  (sometimes) cannot or won't do.  But I've never
>gotten MS Fax that shipped with Windows 95 to work.  This was okay for a
>while, but now I really need to use it and eveytime I try to use the fax
>feature, I just cannot get it to run.  I often get started setting up the
>various facets and it just doesn't work.  I get error messages from the
>?printer?  or my modem (wrong com port) etc.
>
>My Compaq Presario 7180 also shipped with a fax feature but I never used it.
>
>Now, I have Office 97.  It  has the ability to stipulate the fax or the
>printer etc but the process to get through it is very tedious  - - and then
>it doesn't work.
>
>I would like some recommendations about other "easier" fax software
>packages that are out there that the people in this list really like and
>use often.
>
>I'm not afraid to mess with my system, and I've followed all of the regular
>contributors here carefully for a while now.    Needless to say I learn
>alot from lurking.  Thanks in advance for anyone who cares to reply
>privately or on this list if appropriate.
>
>Marianne Jelley
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>intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your
>neck?" --- Linda Ellerbee
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