Re: flexfax: Viewing received faxes via http browser

[Mario Misic <mario@laus.hr>]

At 12:00 1997.10.24 -0400, Nico Garcia wrote:
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>On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Mario Misic wrote:
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>> >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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>> 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,
>> export file system and that is all !
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>You have a Win95 plug-in for Netscape. Some of use Lynx: Some of us
>use Internet Explorer: Some of us use SunOS, or Linux, etc.
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>What you describe is quite useful, but it is not a *general* solution.
>It also replaces your default *.tif viewer with a different one, just
>for viewing the faxes named *.tif. I consider it helpful to name the
>files *.fax instead, so the viewers and tools like ImagaMagick can
>distinguish it from the more "normal" TIFF formats which they know
>about.

Hi again!

Yes of course, for those who have an intranet app like me that is quite
useful, but the others who use another fax viewer they have to replace
extension fax to tiff or to something else, I agree.

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