Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend
Is there any such beast as a graphical frontend to the hylafax package? It would need to deal with received faxes too, not just sending faxes (be nice to preview what the fax program is planning to send). ksendfax (part of kde) might be a possibility, but I don't know if it would tailor itself to hylafax, although in a awy I don't see why it wouldn't. sendfax (or 'fax send') itself is a 'front end', and in reality, hylafax is more like sendmail, a transport agent, than an app that sends faxes (applies to mgetty+sendfax too). I ran hylafax for a little while, but now I don't have a modem (just DSL) and therefore can't send faxes :(. I did experiment with methods of sending faxes in Star Office, but that didn't work all that well - multiple page faxes were a problem. Still, sending a fax is 1% (or less) actually transmission, and the rest is editing/previewing, which can be done in any editor, somewhat like printing is. And receiving - the fax subsystem (hylafax) should do all that auto- matically, all the user needs to do is see what was faxed and/or print it - and there are several tiff / g3 type viewers available. praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Praedor Tempus uttered these words of wisdom: I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available) but do not yet know whether or not I was successful. As for receiving a fax... Are there any GUIs for hylafax? I have seen several listed for efax and sendfax, but since I am using hylafax, I have simply fax (ie, fax send number filename. Simple enough in principal but I would prefer a frontend that anyone could use (I wont get my wife to do CLI stuff). Is there any such beast as a graphical frontend to the hylafax package? It would need to deal with received faxes too, not just sending faxes (be nice to preview what the fax program is planning to send). praedor I've just recently setup hylafax on my laptop but I don't really use it that often, so I'm wingin' it. I use Staroffice 6.0 and just setup another printer for faxes. When you fax, you just hit print and then select fax and it will bring up a dialog box asking for the number. From there, I use gfax to see the job status. I hope this helps. /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Fax gui frontend
I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available) but do not yet know whether or not I was successful. As for receiving a fax... Are there any GUIs for hylafax? I have seen several listed for efax and sendfax, but since I am using hylafax, I have simply fax (ie, fax send number filename. Simple enough in principal but I would prefer a frontend that anyone could use (I wont get my wife to do CLI stuff). Is there any such beast as a graphical frontend to the hylafax package? It would need to deal with received faxes too, not just sending faxes (be nice to preview what the fax program is planning to send). praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend
On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 1:07 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available) but do not yet know whether or not I was successful. As for receiving a fax... Are there any GUIs for hylafax? I have seen several listed for efax and sendfax, but since I am using hylafax, I have simply fax (ie, fax send number filename. Simple enough in principal but I would prefer a frontend that anyone could use (I wont get my wife to do CLI stuff). Is there any such beast as a graphical frontend to the hylafax package? It would need to deal with received faxes too, not just sending faxes (be nice to preview what the fax program is planning to send). praedor kdeprintfax may be configured to use either hylafax or efax as a backend. In KDE the CUPS pseudo fax printer will launch kdeprintfax. I do not know how well it works with hylafax since I use efax. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 07:07, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available) but do not yet know whether or not I was successful. As for receiving a fax... Are there any GUIs for hylafax? I have seen several listed for efax and sendfax, but since I am using hylafax, I have simply fax (ie, fax send number filename. Simple enough in principal but I would prefer a frontend that anyone could use (I wont get my wife to do CLI stuff). Is there any such beast as a graphical frontend to the hylafax package? It would need to deal with received faxes too, not just sending faxes (be nice to preview what the fax program is planning to send). Praedor, If you check www.hylafax.org, you will find a link to several GUI front-ends, for both Windows and *nix. They generally either use a shared network printer emulation, or a Samba shared folder for incoming and outgoing faxes. You can also set up HylaFax to receive email, and automatically fax an email message if it is in the proper format. On my system, received faxes are emailed to the fax admin as attachments (they can also be accessed through a Samba network share, either in Network Neighborhood or using one of the GUI clients). Faxes are sent using the GUI front-end (which is Samba-based) or simply via Network Neighborhood, placing the outgoing fax into a network shared for outgoing faxes. All in all, HylaFax is a pretty slick package with tons of functionality, if a bit complicated at times. -- Dave Sherman Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 07:36 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 1:07 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available) but do not yet know whether or not I was successful. As for receiving a fax... [...] kdeprintfax may be configured to use either hylafax or efax as a backend. In KDE the CUPS pseudo fax printer will launch kdeprintfax. I do not know how well it works with hylafax since I use efax. I am having problems with hylafax, it seems. I have a modem on the basic /dev/modem device (a linmodem in my laptop). If I do fax send phone number filename, which is efax I believe(?), I get a dialtone, dialout, and negotiation. My fax fails to send however. I then tried ksendfax (printing to fax) in cups. It doesn't do anything. The fax is qeued up and it says, in the blink of an eye, that the fax is being sent. It isn't. No dialtone heard, no dialing, no negotiation. I tried it with ksendfax setup for hylafax and for efax. Neither works. Here's the output in /var/log/messages wrt my latest hylafax attempt via ksendfax: Aug 13 08:00:51 lapdog FaxSend[7623]: MODEM LT V.90 DATA+FAX MODEM VERSION 6.00 LT V.90 Data+Fax Modem Version 6.00/ Aug 13 08:00:52 lapdog FaxSend[7623]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.1 Aug 13 08:00:52 lapdog FaxSend[7623]: SEND FAX: JOB 3 DEST 4962915 COMMID 0003 Aug 13 08:00:52 lapdog FaxSend[7623]: DEVICE '/dev/modem' Aug 13 08:00:54 lapdog FaxQueuer[7626]: Missing ':' separator in modem group specification Aug 13 08:00:54 lapdog FaxQueuer[7626]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.1 Aug 13 08:00:54 lapdog FaxQueuer[7626]: Copyright (c) 1990-1996 Sam Leffler Aug 13 08:00:54 lapdog FaxQueuer[7626]: Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Aug 13 08:00:55 lapdog FaxQueuer[7579]: FIFO: JOB 3 not found for msg c Aug 13 08:00:57 lapdog FaxQueuer[7627]: usage: faxq [-q queue-directory] [-D] Aug 13 08:01:59 lapdog FaxSend[7623]: SEND FAILED: JOB 3 DEST 4962915 ERR No carrier detected Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
