To provide facsimile equipment such as a facsimile server that can automatically and properly update a computer program without the need for point by point confirmation to each client computer and to provide a recoding medium whose contents can be read by the facsimile equipment.

The facsimile equipment is configured such that a version information table 12a stores version information of a computer program installed in each client computer, the facsimile equipment compares the version information of a new computer program with that of the computer program installed in each client computer when acquiring the new computer program and updates the computer program of each client terminal when the version information of each client computer is older.