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A. A “handshake” allows remote computers and, in this specific case, fax machines from different systems to communicate. The “hand shake” is the two different systems “negotiating” how they are going to communicate. Hence, the name “handshake”; it’s how the different fax systems greet one another and establish their communciaton relationship.
