Can´t send a fax without having to hang-up the phone

You should be able to send a fax during a phone call if you have a standard
telephone plugged into the SAME TELEPHONE LINE as the Fax modem AND you go
into modem properties and select to NOT wait for a dialtone. I haven't
tried this under Windows XP yet, but one used to be able to turn off the
"wait for dialtone" feature, compose a fax with a short (1 or 2 digit) bogus
phone number, make the phonecall to a person-assisted Fax machine with the
telephone, and send the fax to the person talking on the handset of this
dedicated Fax machine by telling him/her to press the "Start" button when
your modem finish sending the 1 or 2 touchtones you gave for the bogus
number.

Hal
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"lgoulart" wrote in message
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My whole doubt is because the Winfax program has an option for "Manual
receive" of a fax and that is, as you said, switching modes during the
same session without hanging up the line. That´s why I was wondering
if I can send a fax the same way, it would like a "Manual Send" option
(which if exists in Winfax I haven´t been able to find).

BTW, tks for your help! :-)

On Tue, 4 May 2004 09:22:52 -0400, "Yves Leclerc"
wrote:

When making a voice call, with a standard fax machine, you can switch
modes,
from voice to fax, during the same session without hanging up the line.
However, I have never seems any computer faxing system, Windows or Unix,
which would allow this. The faxing systems always assume that the fax
modem
needs to directly call the receiver's fax.

Y.