Published by John Wiley & Sons 1995
ISBN 0-471-95072-6
approx. 350pp Paper/Disk Pak
The Fax Modem Sourcebook was reprinted in 2000. The text remains the same, but the floppy disk was replaced with a CD (containing code updated to incorporate all the fixes on the errata page here).
This book should be available via all good booksellers. Alternatively, you may order online from most internet booksellers, such as Amazon.com, or Barnes & Noble. While these companies should be able to keep the book in stock or obtain it for you quickly, the delivery dates they quote do vary considerably, and it might be worth looking at more than one site to find who offers the best service at any particular time. All these companies claim to provide a fast and reliable international mail order service. European readers might prefer to order from Amazon.co.uk, even though they don't seem able to keep the book in stock.
There are some nice customer comments at Amazon.com which back up the review from the ACCU.
If you want to use the links above to order from any online site, please do NOT try to browse around first - you should add the book to your shopping cart directly after following the link from this page. (This is quite safe - it is always possible to withdraw the order if you later change your mind).
In case of difficulty, you can also order direct from the publisher, either online or by post or by phone.
Most modems today have fax capability and come bundled with fax software, but their manuals are strangely silent about how the whole process works. This first part of this book gives a basic grounding in fax modem technology to both the novice and experienced user. It explains why fax machines are easy to set up and then work every time, but computer faxes are tricky to install and often fail to work reliably. The second part is a complete reference for technical users. From the computer hardware and system software on your desk through the modem itself to the international standards set by ANSI/EIA/TIA and the CCITT/ITU-T, this section brings all the relevant technical documentation together in one place. Part three shows how easy it is to write your own fax software. Full code is presented and developed for turning ordinary text into fax images and then transmitting them, as well as for receiving faxes and displaying them on screen or printing them out. A disk with full source code to a Fax Toolkit, also containing many more pages of disk notes and associated specifications, is included with a non-commercial license for use of the code, for which corrections and updates are made freely available via the errata sheet available at this site.