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- From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
- Subject: Re: Does anyone have GNU fax working?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.052801.16051@super.org>
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- Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
- References: <1992Aug17.203348.10494@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug18.195523.10228@unislc.uucp> <1406@yetti.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 05:28:01 GMT
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- Before everyone runs off and snarfs NetFax you should understand what
- it is: a package for shuffling Group III fax files around your machine
- and the net. It doesn't generate, understand or display them itself
- -- it calls ghostscript with an output drive for "fax". The NetFax
- code itself is still in the development stage, with lots of pathnames
- to configure (and none have reasonable defaults), one file per
- directory, and many short C programs that would have been more
- appropriate as shell scripts. The need for TCP come from its ability
- to shuffle fax files off to a machine that has a sendfax modem service
- -- a need the typical Linux user doesn't have.
-
- OTOH, the Group III output capability of ghostscript is something that a
- Linixer with a sendfax modem may needs. Just write a 'sendfax'
- command that works like:
- % sendfax <dial-this-number> [<send-this-fax-file>]
- % gs letter.ps | sendfax <dial-this-number>
-
-
- Donald Becker becker@super.org
- Supercomputing Research Center, Institute for Defense Analyses
- 17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 21114 301-805-7482
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- Donald Becker becker@super.org
- Supercomputing Research Center, Institute for Defense Analyses
- 17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 21114 301-805-7482
-