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December 1996 Reviews This Month
By James E. Powell
Despite its name, HotFax is anything but hot. The program's overall finish and performance can best be described as tepid.
HotFax provides basic send-and-receive faxing features, and supports fax broadcasting and the gray-scaling of graphical images. It includes a basic package for file transfer and host-mode communications. The program also accepts address books in dBASE format, or will accept address books imported from other programs such as Microsoft Exchange or Smith Micro's QuickLink.
This version provides a new custom cover-page designer and HotPage, which notifies a pager when your Microsoft Exchange Inbox receives a new message. The program can receive faxes in the background, and lets you annotate faxes, use OCR to convert them to text or forward faxes to another number.
But there were a number of problems with the program. For example, the documentation refers to features, such as deskew, that aren't even mentioned in the software.
Although HotFax lets you retrieve faxes remotely, the manual didn't explain the process. And operations were slow, even on a relatively fast Pentium 166.
INFO FILE --
Price: $79
Platforms: 3X, 95, NT
Smith Micro Software
800-964-SMSI, 714-362-2345
WinMag Box Score: 2.5
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