[Fwd: flexfax: [Fwd: viewfax utility]]

[Didier Legein <didierlegein@mosaic.xs4all.be>]

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Subject: Re: flexfax: [Fwd: viewfax utility] 
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 07:06:22 -0500
From: Miguel Gualdron <mig@wwa.com>


>Maybe someone wrote a script for this.
>I'm using viewfax (from the sgi site) to view my incoming fax' in *tif
>format.
>
>Now I'm changing the reception mode from priniting to "by email with
>attachment".
>
>As viewfax doesn't need conversion to *ps format i could cut the
>conversion stuff but here comes the problem :
>
>viewfax needs a commandline argument such as :
>
>viewfax <file> and than displays the file.
>
>However "viewfax" doesn't do anything by itself.
>
>I pointed in Netscape all *tiff extensions to use viewfax but this
>doesn't work. As I click on the attached attachment file (->the actual
>fax) viewfax can't display the linked fax.
>
>So has  anyone a little script that automatically launches viewfax
><attached_file_to_email>. Somehow the script should append the "clicked
>file" behind the viewfax command.
>
>I hope this is somewhat clear ...
>
>Didier LEGEIN

I use viewfax-2.4 with Netscape Communicator 4.06, in Preferences->
Applications, I have the following settings for TIFF:

Description: TIFF Image
MIME Type: image/tiff
Suffixes: tiff, tif
Application: viewfax %s

Hope this helps.

--Miguel