At 1:34 am -0700 9/10/02, Ben Hines wrote:
>On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 01:21 AM, ewitness - Ben Fowler wrote:
>
>>[ ... ]
>>Are there two programs called efax?
>
>No.
>
>>The one you refer to
>><URL: http://www.macadvocacy.com/cocoaefax.htm > is shareware.
>
>And is simply a shareware "cocoa wrapper for efax", as indicated by a cursory glance
>at the thing. Did you notice how it makes you install their own version of efax and
>ghostscript? Hence my comment, " does not support fink-installed efax or even
>fink-installed ghostscript". He could very easily do so.
I am obviously insufficiently cursory.
I have to admit that there being no reference to efax (though there is
a comparison with FaxSTF) on his page, I assumed that his product was
not derivative, but wholly original. (Most people who work with Open
Source software believe themselves to be in an 'attention' economy and
are keen to the point of zealotry to acknowledge the original authors).
I was working on the basis that the author
hadn't realised that there was a package with similar goals by the same
name (efax is one of the first names you would think of for software
to distribute faxes electronically); since I was not going to be pay
for it, I thought it mean to download and study his product, videlicet:
"Before payment you can receive unlimited amounts of
documents, but can only send 5 documents, and then
sending will be disabled."
(If you are right, then note that efax is GNU licensed, and Ben's
customer's are entitled to full sources. Ben is perfectly free
to charge for his distribution and support (and kudos for anyone
taking the plunge to develop a business in Open SOurce software),
but it is questionable whether the keepers of the word "shareware"
would recognise that items with an Open licence are shareware (which
usually designates proprietary code)).
>>The one I am using <URL: http://www.cce.com/efax/ > is open source.
>>
>>I installed it from source, without involving fink. I had
>>to modifify the man directory, but that was all.
>>
>
>Um, why not just use the fink version?? Is something wrong with it? It is my package.
>"fink install efax"
Ignorance, sheer ignorance. I did not know that it was there.
Incidentally, I seem to have already installed ghostscript, probably
along with the gimp; and I have 'AFPL PRE-RELEASE Ghostscript 7.02',
but I don't seem to have any command line tools that will conver a PDF file
to tiff (or PNG or JPEG ...).
Does MacOS do this natively?
Ben.
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