On Mon, 3 May 2004, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > Cliff Hones wrote: > > > Did you actually try Igor's suggestion? You may need to create > > a real /dev directory. After adding the symbolic link efax > > may be able to correctly open the modem. Note that Cygwin's > > devices are virtual, so you don't actually need a real /dev/ttyS0 > > file. > > ja!!! it works nicely, thought there are some warnings, but I've sent a > fax and it's perfect! Thank you!!! > > PS sorry if I didn't undertsand the suggestion at first. Thank you > again.......!! > > > > > Igor was pointing out that it isn't just Cygwin that efax doesn't > > port to directly, since /dev/modem doesn't necessarily exist. > > efax had the -d option to point to some other device, or you can specify > it in a config file... I don't see this as a portability problem.... > > ciao > Alessio Sangalli
In this case, efax should have worked nicely with "-d /dev/ttyS0", too... Or "-d /dev/com1", if you prefer the Windows names... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/