Re: flexfax: Problems sending Postscript with faxmail

[Randy Kochis <randy@housing.sdsu.edu>]

Why not just pipe the postscript file to sendfax at the end of the perl script?

At 9:21 AM +0100 7/8/98, Ralf Graefe wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>ref.: Hylafax v 4.0pl2 On Linux kernel 2.0.33
>I want to EMail a Perl generated Postscript file with sendmail using
>faxmail. I already printed it and also send it with sendfax without
>problems so the Postscript code should be ok.
>
>I also can send several other Postscript files with faxmail without
>problems. For sending I used the Perl MIME-tools and the Netscape
>Communicator mail client as well. In the source of faxmail I saw that it
>only looks for the MIME-type that was equally set correctly in ALL
>tests.
>
>So what is actually happening?:
>
>First I see the following message in /var/log/messages:
>
>Jul  8 10:10:59 wintermute FaxQueuer[2876]: NOTIFY: bin/notify
>"doneq/q72" "no_formatter" ""
>
>
>
>In the path /var/spool/fax/doneq I then have a file containing the
>following error messages:
>
>
>commid:
>status:Unrecoverable error: invalidrestore in restore\
>Operand stack:\
>    --nostringval--  --nostringval--\
>\
>Unexpected interpreter error -11.\
>Error object: (f80)op(37:restore)0x805e410\
>Operand stack at 0x815f9a4:\
>0x81673a4: 0x11 save --F------ 0x0428 0x00000009\
>0x81673ac: 0x11 save --F------ 0x0320 0x000001e2\
>Execution stack at 0x815f9f8:\
>0x8168d0c: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x0000 0x08071440 = %interp_exit\
>0x8168d14: 0x12 str  --F-rxe-- 0x0000 0x00000000 = \
>0x8168d1c: 0x03 file --L-rxe-- 0x0001 0x08170548\
>0x8168d24: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x0000 0x0807d9d0\
>0x8168d2c: 0x03 file --S-rxe-- 0x0001 0x08163270\
>0x8168d34: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x0000 0x0807d980 = %runexec_finish\
>0x8168d3c: 0x03 file --S-rxe-- 0x0001 0x08163270\
>0x8168d44: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x000a 0x081ae9a0\
>0x8168d4c: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0039 0x0819f1ae\
>Dictionary stack at 0x815f920:\
>0x816953c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0000 0x0816968c\
>0x8169544: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0000 0x081ae3f4\
>0x816954c: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x0000 0x0816e590\
>
>Finally in the path /var/spool/fax/docq the corresponding file contains
>my originally Postscript code wrapt in more Postscript. (By the way,
>which tool generates those files anyway).
>
>So what is wrong here?
>
>Cheers Ralf!
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