1.   Because the server would relay digital fax data right over the Internet, there would be no need to place a long-distance call.

2.   Mr. Wernikoff founded Electronic Image Systems Corp., where he and his colleagues built a prototype digital fax unit.

3.   Robert E. Wernikoff, the inventor of the first practical digital fax system for use over telephone lines, died Wednesday at his home in Newton, Mass.

4.   The idea behind Netcentric was to cut out the analog middleman and relay digital fax data over the digital Internet.