Re: efax-gtk faxing problem ***UPDATE***

[Johnny]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:15:10PM -0600, Johnny wrote:

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:50:13PM -0600, Johnny wrote:

Hi
I am using efax-gtk -3.0.7
The distro that I am using is Ubuntu Dapper since I can't get any 
answers over there at the other list,

I thought I would try here.
I have the external modem on /dev/ttyS1
I sent a fax with no errors
The fax that I sent to has the same distro installed with a external 
modem on /dev/ttyS1
It receives the fax with no errors, using gv to view the fax, but I 
can't view the fax.

What do I need to do to fix this.



what does gv do when you try to view the fax? does it give you an
error message? 
When I try to view the file there is no name for the file that was sent 
just
a number format like 200703345.111 but not a file name format, when 
trying  to

view It gives me a errors message in a yellow screen.


okay. what is the error? please be specific.


have you tried viewing it
in another viewer? 

No


well, you might want to try that.


what file format is the fax saved in?

filename.ps (postscript)


okay, we're getting somewhere. other viewers for .ps files include
evince and kghostview (which is probably gv backend anyway).

A

This is a update
I just went over there to see why she can't view the Fax I sent her
boy that a long drive. everything is ok no errors it the way she was 
using efax-gtk

I gave her a quick tutorial of the program

THANKS for the help

Johnny


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: efax-gtk faxing problem

[Kevin Mark]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:15:10PM -0600, Johnny wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:50:13PM -0600, Johnny wrote:
> >>Hi
> >>I am using efax-gtk -3.0.7
> >>The distro that I am using is Ubuntu Dapper since I can't get any 
> >>answers over there at the other list,
> >>I thought I would try here.
> >>I have the external modem on /dev/ttyS1
> >>I sent a fax with no errors
> >>The fax that I sent to has the same distro installed with a external 
> >>modem on /dev/ttyS1
> >>It receives the fax with no errors, using gv to view the fax, but I 
> >>can't view the fax.
> >>What do I need to do to fix this.
> 
> 
> >what does gv do when you try to view the fax? does it give you an
> >error message? 
> 
> When I try to view the file there is no name for the file that was sent 
> just
> a number format like 200703345.111 but not a file name format, when 
> trying  to
> view It gives me a errors message in a yellow screen.
> 
> >have you tried viewing it
> >in another viewer? 
> No
> what file format is the fax saved in?
> 
> filename.ps (postscript)
> 
> The other computer that I am sending fax to, is not online (internet)
what does the utility 'file' say?
do:
file 200703345.111
and show us what the output is.
-- 
|  .''`.  == Debian GNU/Linux == |   my web site:   |
| : :' :  The  Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/|
| `. `'  Operating System| go to counter.li.org and |
|   `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656   |
|  my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |


signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

Re: efax-gtk faxing problem

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:15:10PM -0600, Johnny wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:50:13PM -0600, Johnny wrote:
> >>Hi
> >>I am using efax-gtk -3.0.7
> >>The distro that I am using is Ubuntu Dapper since I can't get any 
> >>answers over there at the other list,
> >>I thought I would try here.
> >>I have the external modem on /dev/ttyS1
> >>I sent a fax with no errors
> >>The fax that I sent to has the same distro installed with a external 
> >>modem on /dev/ttyS1
> >>It receives the fax with no errors, using gv to view the fax, but I 
> >>can't view the fax.
> >>What do I need to do to fix this.
> 
> 
> >what does gv do when you try to view the fax? does it give you an
> >error message? 
> 
> When I try to view the file there is no name for the file that was sent 
> just
> a number format like 200703345.111 but not a file name format, when 
> trying  to
> view It gives me a errors message in a yellow screen.

okay. what is the error? please be specific.

> 
> >have you tried viewing it
> >in another viewer? 
> No

well, you might want to try that.

> what file format is the fax saved in?
> 
> filename.ps (postscript)

okay, we're getting somewhere. other viewers for .ps files include
evince and kghostview (which is probably gv backend anyway).

A


signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

Re: efax-gtk faxing problem

[Johnny]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:50:13PM -0600, Johnny wrote:

Hi
I am using efax-gtk -3.0.7
The distro that I am using is Ubuntu Dapper since I can't get any 
answers over there at the other list,

I thought I would try here.
I have the external modem on /dev/ttyS1
I sent a fax with no errors
The fax that I sent to has the same distro installed with a external 
modem on /dev/ttyS1
It receives the fax with no errors, using gv to view the fax, but I 
can't view the fax.

What do I need to do to fix this.




what does gv do when you try to view the fax? does it give you an
error message? 


When I try to view the file there is no name for the file that was sent 
just
a number format like 200703345.111 but not a file name format, when 
trying  to

view It gives me a errors message in a yellow screen.


have you tried viewing it
in another viewer? 

No
what file format is the fax saved in?

filename.ps (postscript)

The other computer that I am sending fax to, is not online (internet)

Johnny




--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: efax-gtk faxing problem

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:50:13PM -0600, Johnny wrote:
> Hi
> I am using efax-gtk -3.0.7
> The distro that I am using is Ubuntu Dapper since I can't get any 
> answers over there at the other list,
> I thought I would try here.
> I have the external modem on /dev/ttyS1
> I sent a fax with no errors
> The fax that I sent to has the same distro installed with a external 
> modem on /dev/ttyS1
> It receives the fax with no errors, using gv to view the fax, but I 
> can't view the fax.
> What do I need to do to fix this.
> 

what does gv do when you try to view the fax? does it give you an
error message? does it show a blank screen? have you tried viewing it
in another viewer? what file format is the fax saved in? all these
things are needed for us to help you.

A


signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

efax-gtk faxing problem

[Johnny]

Hi
I am using efax-gtk -3.0.7
The distro that I am using is Ubuntu Dapper since I can't get any 
answers over there at the other list,

I thought I would try here.
I have the external modem on /dev/ttyS1
I sent a fax with no errors
The fax that I sent to has the same distro installed with a external 
modem on /dev/ttyS1
It receives the fax with no errors, using gv to view the fax, but I 
can't view the fax.

What do I need to do to fix this.

Johnny


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

faxing

[Mark Copper]

Sorry if this is OT, but faxing has given me fits for years.

I want to receive a fax, via modem on my Debian PC,
edit it in GIMP and fax it back.  Here's what I
think works:

   - use mgetty to receive fax
   - open fax in GIMP (GIMP can read but not write .g3 files)
   - scale image to double vertical dimension for normal (204x98  dpi)
 faxes
   - edit image and save in, say, GIMP's xcf format
   - scale image to halve vertical dimension
   - using ImageMagick "convert" to .g3 format (ImageMagick can read but
 not write GIMP's xcf format
   - use mgetty's "sendfax" to send fax

Is there a better way?  Whenever I google for help I never seem to be
able to find anything but the ImageMagick manual pages which have not
helped me (for years :( ).

Thanks.

Mark


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: faxing via broadband

[Lee Braiden]

This was a while back, but since I was just looking it up for pointers to 
online fax services, I'm reply now anyway :)

On Friday 06 May 2005 15:00, Gnu-Raiz wrote:
> I do think that e-mail would be a better solution, how many people you
> know have a fax machine, but no e-mail?
> In a simple term faxes are not realiable, too many variables for 
> failure compared to e-mail, and then you have the security aspect to
> contend with.

Agreed.  Fax was a poor and ill-considered approach to what email now does 
better.  Unfortunately some people still provide no other useful contact 
details, and I'm stuck with fax sometimes ;)

> The only exception I can think of would be signatures, 
> I have run into some places which want a signature faxed to them for
> some dumb reason, its not like digital signatures are good enough or
> something.

On this, I would say that digital signatures are far superior, and should 
probably be preferred.

-- 
Lee.

Please send replies to the list, not to my email address.


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: faxing via broadband

[hja]

Hi Lee,
ur mail makes interesting reading. I am trying to avoid buying a fax.
I'll just ask the other side to scan in the doc and email as attachment
to me. This won't be difficult with those all-in-1 machines.

Cheers

hja123


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: faxing via broadband

[Gnu-Raiz]

> From: Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 
> Today 05:29:30
>>On Friday 06 May 2005 11:05, hja123 wrote:
>>Interesting, what you said about faxing and broadband. I would have
>> thought that it is possible since broadband can handle images. I 
>>came
>> across some non-free software available for this purpose.

>
>
>On the other hand, a broadband "modem" is something quite different: 
>it sends and receives data in an entirely different way, that has 
>nothing to do with the way faxes send and receive data.

>Where the confusion lies is that both technologies are used as 
>underlying communication methods for Internet communications, but 
>when you send an image over the internet, you're not sending it in a 
>way that's similar to fax.  In fact, it's VERY different.  Rather 
>than calling someone, and sending a digital image, you're connecting 
>to the internet, finding another computer on that network, and 
>digitally sending data through some high-level protocol.  
>What you send could be an image, a sound, or a CD: it's all the same 
>as far as the internet is concerned, but a fax machine wouldn't 
>understand any of it, image or not.
>
>-- 
>Lee.

As long as you have broadband interent access you can use web based 
faxing solutions, some even provide free faxing services.

http://www.savetz.com/fax/

I do think that e-mail would be a better solution, how many people you 
know have a fax machine, but no e-mail? Also you have the problem of 
confirmation, yes you can get a little confirmation when you send the 
fax, does it go to the right person? Or does it sit on the machine 
until someone feels like looking at it? Is what you send readable on 
their end, is it complete? I think we can all remember those days of 
looking for page 3, the most critical part of the fax and ending up 
calling the person to resend it.  

In a simple term faxes are not realiable, too many variables for 
failure compared to e-mail, and then you have the security aspect to 
contend with.  The only exception I can think of would be signatures, 
I have run into some places which want a signature faxed to them for 
some dumb reason, its not like digital signatures are good enough or 
something.  If that happens, a good scanner and the above site 
provides me with ample resources to please their little hearts.

If someone owns a fax machine, and a computer do us all a favor and 
unplug it, trust me you will be glad you did.  For the cost of ink, 
and paper just sign up for a fax-e-mail solution.  Thats right 
business offer a solution for all those faxes to be digital 1-and 0's 
sent to your favorite e-mail address. 

Gnu_Raiz


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: faxing via broadband

[Lee Braiden]

On Friday 06 May 2005 11:05, hja123 wrote:
> Interesting, what you said about faxing and broadband. I would have
> thought that it is possible since broadband can handle images. I came
> across some non-free software available for this purpose.

Well, broadband itself, like a modem, is not really about sending images: it's 
a low-level communication system, for sending and receiving data of some 
kind.  In the case of modems and fax machines, the technology is very 
similar: they take data and encode it as audio, then send it over a 
phoneline, and finally decode it again.  A fax basically *is* a modem with 
built-in image scanning/conversion/printing.

On the other hand, a broadband "modem" is something quite different: it sends 
and receives data in an entirely different way, that has nothing to do with 
the way faxes send and receive data.

Where the confusion lies is that both technologies are used as underlying 
communication methods for Internet communications, but when you send an image 
over the internet, you're not sending it in a way that's similar to fax.  In 
fact, it's VERY different.  Rather than calling someone, and sending a 
digital image, you're connecting to the internet, finding another computer on 
that network, and digitally sending data through some high-level protocol.  
What you send could be an image, a sound, or a CD: it's all the same as far 
as the internet is concerned, but a fax machine wouldn't understand any of 
it, image or not.

-- 
Lee.


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: faxing via broadband

[hja123]

Interesting, what you said about faxing and broadband. I would have
thought that it is possible since broadband can handle images. I came
across some non-free software available for this purpose.

I'll do a search to find out more about email-to-fax gateway.

thks.


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: faxing via broadband

[Lee Braiden]

On Friday 06 May 2005 09:03, hja123 hja123 wrote:
> is there a package for faxing, using the computer and a broadband link?

Broadband doesn't do fax.  At least, not in the way you're probably
expecting if you've used a fax modem before.  It just so happens that
fax machines and modems share a few underlying similarities, so they
make fax modems that do both.  That lucky coincidence doesn't apply
with broadband, though, which is much newer technology than faxes.

You can use a email-to-fax gateway for this, and I think some are
available as Free Software, but I'm not sure if Debian has any in
official packages.

-- 
Lee.


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

faxing via broadband

[hja123 hja123]

Hi,

is there a package for faxing, using the computer and a broadband link?

hja

Re: Faxing from Debian

[Adam Aube]

David Baron wrote:

> I have gotten this to work using a couple of efax front-ends, efax-gtk and
> kdeprintfax. Kdeprintfax can be set up called as a printer choice from kde
> applications. However, direct applications such as OpenOffice and others
> will only see the regular printers attached to the system, for example, on
> a parallel port using a known driver such as for Epson or HP.

You could setup a printer in these applications that calls the KDE Printing
subsystem, which would give you access to all the printers configured there
(including your fax printers). The full command line to setup as the
printer is :

/usr/bin/kprinter --stdin

Adam


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Faxing from Debian

[David Baron]

I have gotten this to work using a couple of efax front-ends, efax-gtk and 
kdeprintfax. Kdeprintfax can be set up called as a printer choice from kde 
applications. However, direct applications such as OpenOffice and others will 
only see the regular printers attached to the system, for example, on a 
parallel port using a known driver such as for Epson or HP.

What is needed is a front end such as one of the above which will come up when 
selecting a fax printer listed under CUPS. An interface might be using a URI. 
How might I set this up?


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: faxing over the internet

[Vidette]

Lev, Please help me with efax.  I bought this service but I
have so much difficulty storing the received faxes.  Sometimes I receive multiple
documents in one fax that I would like to separate the pages of…I can’t
do this.  I don’t know how to handle the .tif files.  For example, if a
vendor sends me 5 invoices for 5 different properties I would like to
electronically file the invoices in the folder of the respective property. 
Unfortunatley, the way I receive the faxes, I have to store all 5 with each
property folder.  Can you help me?  

 

Vidette Lobue

Property Manager

Lagniappe Management 

 

310-278-5126 Business

213-947-1918 Fax

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

 

 

 

Suggestions for faxing under Debian?

[Karsten M. Self]

I'm looking for a simple fax solution for a laptop.  I've settled on
efax, though it's not all I'd hoped for.

hylafax, while suitable for a dedicated fax server, seems to have
numerous problems when used in a send-only, periodic, mode.  See bug
#173024 for details.

While efax does indeed send faxes, there are a few things I'd be
interested in seeing:

  - Preconfigured fax recipeitns.  The equivalent of an email alias or
such.

  - The ability to queue up a list of faxes to send (and resend/retry if
necessary) at a later point in time.  Since this system uses the
modem as its primary networking interface, I can't be online and
send faxes at the same time.  efax doesn't appear to support this.
Ideally, I'd submit a set of requests, to be executed at some later
time when the modem is free.  This probably fits hylafax better than
efax.  Or I could gin up a front-end to submit faxes when the
modem's free  Hmm.

  - Set up faxing as a printer service.  There's a howto on the topic,
but I haven't managed to get it working with my system yet.
Currently using lpr for printing, but I'm considering switching to
CUPS.

If anyone's got stories/configs for fax setups to share, I'm interested.

Peace.

-- 
Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
 What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
   Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list:
 http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: faxing over the internet

[Carl Fink]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:04:38AM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
 
> a small plug for the company I work for:
> 
> efax.com

A small plug for a company I don't work for:  I've used efax for years, and
they give great service.  
-- 
Carl Fink   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: faxing over the internet

[Tim Moss]

Apparently, on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:00:24PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> Anyone know if there is a way to send and receive faxes over the
> internet.  I am in need of fax capabilities but do not have a modem
> on my computer, only DSL.
> 
http://www.tpc.int/tpc_home.html

"Welcome to the TPC home page. The TPC service is a collection of FAX
servers you may use to send a fax to many locations around the world."

You can send a fax from a web form or via email.

Re: faxing over the internet

[Lev Lvovsky]

a small plug for the company I work for:

efax.com

-lev

On 18 Dec 2001, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:

> Anyone know if there is a way to send and receive faxes over the
> internet.  I am in need of fax capabilities but do not have a modem
> on my computer, only DSL.
>
> Lance
>
>
>
>
>

-- 
personal site  :: www.sonous.com
rave site  :: raves.sonous.com
I'm a DJ! site :: djkgb.sonous.com

"she [Britney Spears] would return a year later with a self-written album
co-produced by the dust brothers and aphex twin called 'the britney spears
electric kool-aid lonely hearts club experience' with sitars, darkstep
acid jungle beats, and post-rock idm emo-core. or maybe she'd just make a
straightforward pop album, but actively encourage her fanbase to take
psychadelics." -Ben Yater

faxing over the internet

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

Anyone know if there is a way to send and receive faxes over the
internet.  I am in need of fax capabilities but do not have a modem
on my computer, only DSL.

Lance

faxing with staroffice 5.2?

[Jaye Inabnit ke6sls]

Hello,
I pulled down the newest star office suit. Would love to set up faxing, but
so far, all the help I found isn't helping at all. Is there a way to enable
faxing (at least sending a fax) with star office using debian potato?

Jaye

Re: Faxing from Debian - success, but is there a GUI?

[Phillip Deackes]

Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can fax from Lyx using efax.
> 
> 

Cheers, Johann. I had considered LyX, and indeed used to use it as my
Word Processor. But now things have moved along and I need more of a
DTP-type word processor. Lyx is indeed great for text production, but it
is somewhat inflexible about layout etc. and can be changed only with a
lot of effort.

No, I need to fax from Applix in particular. I am sure it is possible to
add a section  to /etc/mailcap which will invoke a filter to pipe the
output to efax, but I am not sure what it is. The necessity to interrupt
the process to add a 'phone number might be a problem.

Cheers anyway


--
Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Linux v.2.1 

Re: Faxing from Debian - success, but is there a GUI?

[Johann Spies]

You can fax from Lyx using efax.

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote:

> Anyway, what I would like to do is to be able to print directly from an
> application like Applix. Failing that, even printing to a .ps file and
> faxing that with a GUI would be useful.
> 

Johann

 --
| Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19  |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg |
| Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa)  |
 --

 "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their  
  strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;  
  they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, 
  and not faint." Isaiah 40:31  

Faxing from Debian - success, but is there a GUI?

[Phillip Deackes]

I am very excited at the ease with which efax installed on my system.
Debian proved itself yet again in configuring my system so that I can,
for the first time, send faxes from my Debian system. I *never* achieved
this with RedHat.

Anyway, what I would like to do is to be able to print directly from an
application like Applix. Failing that, even printing to a .ps file and
faxing that with a GUI would be useful.

At the moment I do the following:

gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=letter.%03d input.file.ps

StarOffice 4.0 and Faxing

[Damir J. Naden]

G'day everybody --

has anyone successfuly set up SO4.0 (under hamm system) to fax directly from
the application- to avoid "save to file (as .ps)" method?
I'm using efax, can fax from the command line, can fax directly from Lyx0.12,
but can't do much more than initialize the modem by using faxlpr "printer"
spooler. I know the command "fax send" needs a number on a command line but
haow to get that in the pop up window under StarOffice?

TIA
Damir


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: faxing using linux?

[office]

PLEASE REMOVE THE ADDRESSES [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any
freetech-mall.com address !!
DO IT NOW I DONT WANT TO READ THIS AND  I NEVER wanted !

STefan GAertner



--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: faxing using linux?

[office]

PLEASE REMOVE THE ADDRESSES [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any
freetech-mall.com address !!
DO IT NOW I DONT WANT TO READ THIS AND  I NEVER wanted !

STefan GAertner



--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: faxing using linux?

[Michael Stutz]

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Chris Keathley Keathley wrote:

> 
> I am new to linux and learning a lot very fast. I am doing good
> learning on my own and reading many linux and unix books. But , my
> wife needs to fax something and I don't have any clue on how to go
> about it. 

Check the "efax" package. It's the easiest fax system I've seen so far
(Linux or otherwise).


Michael Stutz  .  http://dsl.org/m/  .  copyright disclaimer etc
stutz@dsl.org  :  finger for pgp :  http://dsl.org/copyleft/


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: faxing using linux?

[Daniel Martin at cush]

Chris Keathley Keathley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am new to linux and learning a lot very fast. I am doing good
> learning on my own and reading many linux and unix books. But , my
> wife needs to fax something and I don't have any clue on how to go
> about it. I think I am supposed to use mgetty but I don't understand
> it. I read the man pages and it said something about mgetty.info, but
> I couldn't find that file. Could someone step me through it and please
> keep in mind I am new.  It is very easy to talk over my head.

Ok - you can use mgetty, but I've found it easier to use efax (also a
debian package) - also, efax supports older fax modems (class 1) than
mgetty does (mgetty requires class 2 or higher).

Also, what your wife needs to fax needs to be in either postscript,
plain text, or an image file.  Most programs that are able to print
documents can produce postscript output.

If you're going to fax postscript files, you also need the 'gs' and
'gs-fonts' packages.  (I think that the 'gs-aladin' package instead of 
'gs' will also work, but I don't use it)

Here's what I did:

I installed efax, and then edited the /etc/efax.rc file and replaced
the obvious things that needed replacing (there are bits that say
things like "---Your name here---" - it's pretty obvious what needs to 
be replaced).  Since my modem is an old class 1 fax modem, I had to
add a line to /etc/efax.rc file saying:
CLASS=1

You can test whether your modem is a class 1 or class 2 (or even class 
2.0) fax modem by doing the following in minicom:
AT+FCLASS=0
AT+FCLASS=1
AT+FCLASS=2
AT+FCLASS=2.0

Some of these commands will return OK, some will return ERROR - the
last command that says "OK" indicates the class of your modem.  On my
machine, AT+FCLASS=0 and AT+FCLASS=1 both return OK, but the other
commands return ERROR.  You only need to add a 'CLASS=' line to
/etc/efax.rc if you have a class 1 modem.

Once you've done this, and set up your /etc/efax.rc appropriately, you 
can fax things with:
 fax send 555-1212 file.ps

(of course, you would presumably use a different phone number and
filename)

More details on other fax commands (receiving, etc.) can be found in
the 'fax' manpage.

One word of caution - faxing postscript creates a load of temporary
files in the current directory, one for each page - file.ps.001,
file.ps.002, etc. so you'll have to remove them with something like
rm file.ps.[0-9][0-9][0-9]
after you've faxed something.


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

faxing using linux?

[Chris Keathley Keathley]

I am new to linux and learning a lot very fast. I am doing good
learning on my own and reading many linux and unix books. But , my
wife needs to fax something and I don't have any clue on how to go
about it. I think I am supposed to use mgetty but I don't understand
it. I read the man pages and it said something about mgetty.info, but
I couldn't find that file. Could someone step me through it and please
keep in mind I am new.  It is very easy to talk over my head.

thanks




_
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: faxing from Win 95

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Aug 14, 1997 at 06:19:44PM -0500, Rob MacWilliams wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
> > 
> > > > I want to be able to fax from my Windows 95 desktop, ideally via the 
> > > > default exchange client, but via a print driver would be OK.
> > > 
> > > From what little I've seen and read you should be able to do it with
> > > Samba. I believe theres a file in the document directory (somewhere)
> > > called something like win-fax which details the basics of this.
> > 
> > There is a freeware or shareware thingy made by a german company that
> > provides a win95 client program ala Microsoft's fax send dialog that is
> > intended to work with a linux samba server. I have downloaded it a while
> > ago, but haven't had the time to actually install and try it, but I sure
> > plan to do so.
> >
> > I can't remember the exact name and url, but if you do a search on
> > altavista for 
> > +linux +samba +fax windows95 faxdriver 
> > you'll probably find it easily. 
> 
> Is it called Stomper?  If so, it's pretty much a DOS /win '95/NT program.  We 
> use it at work, and it's
> OK unless the modem can't connect, then you have to reboot both machines, 
> yech.

No, stomper is a modem sharing program.
There is a solution for Samba, which involves a script on the server,
a faked samba printer which prints to this script, and a program
running on the Windows machine to ask for the phone number etc.
It works ok.


Hamish
-- 
Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT.
http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 51%
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.  --Bohr


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: faxing from Win 95

[Rob MacWilliams]

> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
> 
> > > I want to be able to fax from my Windows 95 desktop, ideally via the 
> > > default exchange client, but via a print driver would be OK.
> > 
> > From what little I've seen and read you should be able to do it with
> > Samba. I believe theres a file in the document directory (somewhere)
> > called something like win-fax which details the basics of this.
> 
> There is a freeware or shareware thingy made by a german company that
> provides a win95 client program ala Microsoft's fax send dialog that is
> intended to work with a linux samba server. I have downloaded it a while
> ago, but haven't had the time to actually install and try it, but I sure
> plan to do so.
>
> I can't remember the exact name and url, but if you do a search on
> altavista for 
>   +linux +samba +fax windows95 faxdriver 
> you'll probably find it easily. 

Is it called Stomper?  If so, it's pretty much a DOS /win '95/NT program.  We 
use it at work, and it's
OK unless the modem can't connect, then you have to reboot both machines, yech.


> 
> 
> Joost
> 


Later

Rob



"Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."

Rob MacWilliams   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
N9NPU







--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: faxing from Win95

[Joost Kooij]

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

> Here's the URL someone else was trying to remember:
> 
> http://www.esem.com/esemfax.html
> 
> It works with mgetty+sendfax. I haven't tried it, but one of these
> days when I have time I plan to. That's why I had it bookmarked!

Thanks, Jens. That's the one. However, I found that there is also
something called "respond", which you can find along with some other nice 
tools at:
  http://www.boerde.de/~horstf/

I actually got this url from the samba homepage, where it is listed
prominently:
  http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/

Greetings,


Joost


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

faxing from Win95

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Here's the URL someone else was trying to remember:

http://www.esem.com/esemfax.html

It works with mgetty+sendfax. I haven't tried it, but one of these
days when I have time I plan to. That's why I had it bookmarked!

-- 
Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: faxing from Win 95

[Joost Kooij]

On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Adam Shand wrote:

> > I want to be able to fax from my Windows 95 desktop, ideally via the 
> > default exchange client, but via a print driver would be OK.
> 
> From what little I've seen and read you should be able to do it with
> Samba. I believe theres a file in the document directory (somewhere)
> called something like win-fax which details the basics of this.

There is a freeware or shareware thingy made by a german company that
provides a win95 client program ala Microsoft's fax send dialog that is
intended to work with a linux samba server. I have downloaded it a while
ago, but haven't had the time to actually install and try it, but I sure
plan to do so.

I can't remember the exact name and url, but if you do a search on
altavista for 
+linux +samba +fax windows95 faxdriver 
you'll probably find it easily. 


Joost


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: faxing from Win 95

[Adam Shand]

> I want to be able to fax from my Windows 95 desktop, ideally via the 
> default exchange client, but via a print driver would be OK.

Yes it would be nice.  It's been on my list of things to do for a while :)
 
> I currently have my modem on my Linux server running regular mail & news 
> transfer and would also like to be able to use a fax service without 
> having to move the modem connection.

>From what little I've seen and read you should be able to do it with
Samba. I believe theres a file in the document directory (somewhere)
called something like win-fax which details the basics of this.

Adam.


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

faxing from Win 95

[Alex Monaghan]

Sorry if this has been asked before.

I want to be able to fax from my Windows 95 desktop, ideally via the 
default exchange client, but via a print driver would be OK.

I currently have my modem on my Linux server running regular mail & news 
transfer and would also like to be able to use a fax service without 
having to move the modem connection.

Is there such a tool ? If so where ?

Note: This is my personal system, not my work system.

-- 
--
Alex Monaghan   Network Support Analyst, Royal Mail Anglia
London Rd, Stevenage, SG1 1AA, UK
Email   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
STD 01438 767081
Postline5811 7081
--


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 
Trouble?  e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Faxing?

[Dermot Bradley]

On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote:
> 
> > Just to let everyone know, I'm finishing up Debian packages for
> > hylafax-server and hylafax-client. They should be ready within 7-10
> > days.
> 
> does it work with mgetty?

hylafax and mgetty both have apps called sendfax. As a result my 
hylafax-client package has a Conflicts: mgetty control setting.

Dermot

-- 
Dermot BradleyEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Communications Director   Tel: +44 1232 572003
Genesis Project Ltd   Fax: +44 1232 560553
Belfast & Coleraine & Desertmartin, N.I.  WWW: http://www.gpl.net/

--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faxing?

[Craig Sanders]

On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote:

> Just to let everyone know, I'm finishing up Debian packages for
> hylafax-server and hylafax-client. They should be ready within 7-10
> days.

does it work with mgetty?

Craig

--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faxing?

[David Frey]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Nicholson writes:
>Has anybody summarized the differences b/w EFAX and Hylafax?

Have you also considered to use mgetty+sendfax?

David

--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faxing?

[Dermot Bradley]

On 26 Oct 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote:

> Has anybody summarized the differences b/w EFAX and Hylafax?

Just to let everyone know, I'm finishing up Debian packages for 
hylafax-server and hylafax-client. They should be ready within 7-10 days.

Dermot

-- 
Dermot BradleyEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Communications Director   Tel: +44 1232 572003
Genesis Project Ltd   Fax: +44 1232 560553
Belfast & Coleraine & Desertmartin, N.I.  WWW: http://www.gpl.net/

--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faxing?

[Joe Emenaker]

> From: Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Can you fax text etc in EFAX without ghostscript?

Yes and no.

Yes, because efax comes with a utility to turn text files into group-3 fax
images. It's called "efix" and an example usage is given near the bottom of
the efax man page.

No, because I haven't been able to successfully fax anyone with efax yet.
It starts transferring the fax and then wigs. It's probably a class 1 vs.
class 2 thing or something... but I haven't figured it out yet.

So, to summarize, I can't fax with efax, but it has nothing to do with my
not having ghostscript.

- Joe

--

--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faxing?

[Joe Emenaker]

> From: Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Can you fax text etc in EFAX without ghostscript?

Yes and no.

Yes, because efax comes with a utility to turn text files into group-3 fax
images. It's called "efix" and an example usage is given near the bottom of
the efax man page.

No, because I haven't been able to successfully fax anyone with efax yet.
It starts transferring the fax and then wigs. It's probably a class 1 vs.
class 2 thing or something... but I haven't figured it out yet.

So, to summarize, I can't fax with efax, but it has nothing to do with my
not having ghostscript.

- Joe

--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Faxing?

[Robert Nicholson]

Has anybody summarized the differences b/w EFAX and Hylafax?

I've used Hylafax in the past and respect Sam's coding and knowledge
of faxing. and Hylfax fax has a very strong following. And I found it 
relatively painless to setup but I've no experience with EFAX which appears
to be the only offering in Packages.

I noticed that EFAX says. You'll need ghostscript to fax postscript. That's
fine but doesn't Hylafax require ghostscript's g3fax driver to fax anything?

Can you fax text etc in EFAX without ghostscript?

-- 
They pay homage to a king who's dreams are buried in their minds. 
His tears are frozen stiff. Icicles drip from his eyes.

--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]