Re: flexfax: Viewing received faxes via http browser

[Mario Misic <mario@laus.hr>]

At 12:12 1997.10.22 -0400, Nico Garcia wrote:
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>On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Mario Misic wrote:
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>> At 12:49 1997.10.22 +0200, Uri Shkolnik wrote:
>> >I'm running Hylafax 4p1 on SunOS4.1.4, I want to enabled users to view
>> >faxes with Netscape/Internet Explorer etc. via my Intranet web site.
>> >
>> >Does anybody have a working system like this?
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >Uri
>> >
>> >uri@harmonic.co.il
>> >
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> In config file /var/spool/fax/etc/config.tty* you have a variable
>> RecvFileMode change it to look like this:
>> 
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> RecvFileMode:		0644
>> .
>> .
>> .
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>This is not sufficient. On further thought, I remember a couple of other
>things I did to get it to work.
>
>First, the ".tif" extension on received extensions is extremely confusing.
>It is worth modifying the faxrcvd to use the extension ".fax" instead.
>
>Second, users must have a tool capable of viewing either delivered
>Postscript files or the raw tiffg3 files. I recommend "faxview" at
>ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/contrib/ for UNIX based X servers.
>
>Third, they have to teach their viewer to use the correct tool to view
>".fax" files.
>
>The "faxstat.pl" CGI script I just published was *not* written by me:
>the author, Phil Abercrombie, is phil@mcs.vuw.ac.nz and deserves credit.
>
>An alternative approach would be to translate the tiffg3 files into a
>set of plain tiff files, one per page, and let people view *those*. This
>is left as an exercise for the CGI programmer....
>
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>

Hi

Yes of course it is possible, but you already have a plug-in for Netscape
for viewing a faxes, all you have to do is to modify config.tty* file, but
security is other thing.

By
M2


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