[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0010815]: [patch] SendFAX/ReceiveFAX

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10815 
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Reported By:                dimas
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   10815
Category:                   Applications/NewFeature
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     ready for testing
Asterisk Version:           1.4.11  
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A  
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             09-24-2007 04:57 CDT
Last Modified:              10-05-2007 02:37 CDT
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Summary:                    [patch] SendFAX/ReceiveFAX
Description: 
sendfax/receivefax applications are replacement for well known txfax/rxfax.
These are based on the same idea and also use SpanDSP GPL library by Steve
Underwood.

I hope these can be included in basic Asterisk distribution (or to addons)
just to make it easier for people obtaining fax support for Asterisk. Also,
this implementation fixes couple of bugs in applications which prevented me
using txfax/rxfax out of the box.

Notes:
* receivefax does not allow specifying %d in the file name. To me, it is
up to dialplan to form really unique file name.
* debug and answering/calling mode options are specified in a way
different from txfax/rxfax
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 dimas - 10-05-07 02:37  
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Steve, why new application? I balieve if "basic T38 stuff" is in SpanDSP,
we will be able to extend SendFAX/ReceiveFAX in a way that it understands
current situation (whether T38 is present on the channel or not) and act
appropriately?

I would do it already but I just do not have T38 peers and haven't read
the T38 specs yet. For "regular" faxes reading of specs was not required
because your SpanDSP library does everything :) hiding complexity from us
but for T38 it looks like a lot of things involved on the SIP side, so I
need to understand how the protocol works, how each peer signesl
capabilities to each other etc... 

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10-05-07 02:37  dimas          Note Added: 0071514                          
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