Re: flexfax: HylaFAX with Macs, CGI or MacFlex?

[Ekkard Gerlach <SPS_Gerlach@online.de>]

Thomas Kempf wrote:
> 
> Hi David,
> have you already tried SuSEFax. It is a HylaFAX-Client completely written in
> Java and runs with MRJ 2.0 or newer. We are using it in a
> Macintosh/Linux/Win95/98/NT environment without any problems. The

Be careful ! SuSE has stopped the developement of SuSEFax. SuSE support
has mailed it to me in august 1999.

Disadventages of SuSEFax as addendum to the list of
advantaged of thomas kempf:
1. If you use a 15 inch monitor you don�t see the three Buttons "send", 
"polle fax" and "cancel". You don�t see it with a virtuel window manager
like fvwm2 either. SuSE comfirmed this bug. The bug will not removed,
see 
above. 
My trick: if you install SuSEFax from SuSE 5.3 (actual is SuSE 6.3),
that means
deinstall SuSEFax 6.x and install SuSEFax without Java_xy from 5.3 (see
SuSE-ftp-server or CD�s) you will be able to 
see the top HALF (!!) of the three missing buttons on the left side 
of your 15 inch monitor - an you can work, like me (private use)!

If you use a 17 inch or greater monitor, you will see all buttons.

2. SuSEFax buttons are not very convinient. If you work with SuSEFax
very 
often, you can cope with it. Example: try to insert a name an number
in the phonebook. You have to press several buttons in an order that is 
confusing.

3. You can�t form faxgroups. The faxes have to be sent to each receiver 
  seperately.


All information refer to SuSE 6.1/ July 1999. Perhaps something has
changed in spite of the mail I got from SuSE support-hotline.

Ekkard