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Abstract

A facsimile machine includes a scanner, a plotter, a communicating device, a memory storing the image data supplied from the scanner and supplied, through the communicating device, from a source facsimile machine coupled to the transmission line through a network, a second memory storing a plurality of programs each defining a procedure for relaying the image data supplied from the communicating device to at least one destination facsimile machine, and an input device inputting the plurality of programs into the second memory. The facsimile machine further includes a device determining which one of the plurality of programs is designated by the source facsimile machine by referring to a select signal supplied from the source facsimile machine through the communicating device, and a relay transmission executing device relaying the image data supplied from the source and then stored in the second memory to the destination facsimile machine in accordance with one of the plurality of programs which is selected by the source facsimile.

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