In article <eyK5j.2854$md.2485@trnddc06>, Marshall <notmkatzman@verizon.net> wrote:
> Kadin2048 wrote: > > In article <171120071007275637%mitch@hawaii.rr>, > > Mitch <mitch@hawaii.rr> wrote: > > > > > >>>My tired old memory thinks you can FAX from ClarisWorks. (AppleWorks is > >>>for the Apple II series.) If you can, will someone tell me how. I > >>>thought you merely had to hold down the Command key while clicking on > >>>Print. > >> > >>I thought it was Option key; and that may depend on the fax driver > >>installed. I don't think it was a built-in option from CW. > > > > > > My memory is rusty as well, but I'm pretty certain that there wasn't a > > built in fax component to CW either. > > > > The option-print to fax thing was a feature of "FaxSTF" I believe; it > > was a printer driver (and system extension) that you installed and > > offered fax capabilities. I remember getting it free with the first fax > > modem I bought and using it pretty extensively. One of its selling > > points was that you could fax from any application that you could print > > from that way. > > > > So you could definitely fax from Claris, but only if you had that > > software installed. However, I think FaxSTF came with most fax modems > > sold as "Macintosh compatible" in the mid-90s (at least I got it more > > than once, with both USR modems and later generic ones). > > > > The only other thing that I might be confusing FaxSTF with is the Apple > > software that came with the GeoPort Telcom Adapter. That also allowed > > you to send faxes in a similar manner, but the details escape me. > > > > -Kadin. > > Don't you have to pick a fax application in the "Chooser"?
Not with either of those solutions. Using the option key simply told the driver to send to the faxing software -- device management, like with Chooser, had nothing to do with it, since the fax device would already have been associated.
Kadin may be right about both comments above; I had exactly both of those solutions (first Geoport and later FaxSTF) at earlier times, and it was very nice that I could fax from anything. I remember faxing out of GraphicConverter many years ago, and I probably invoked it with option-print.
