Re: flexfax: Sendfax doesn't send my PS File?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Shane Irwin wrote:

> Hello one and all,
> 
> I am hoping that someone out there can help me in the right direction, this
> is my first posting as I am a bit of a newbie.
> 
> I am running Hylafax 4.1 on a Linux 6.3 system.  As part of the installation
> I have installed sendfax,

Linux 6.3? What in the heck? Whose distribution is this? Several Linux
companies seem to have a competition right now of who can have the
largest number for their OS releases....

> my problem is that every time I attempt to send a fax manually, the faxs
> connect fine, then a blank page is sent and I receive the error that it is
> not a G3 fax file?    The document I am trying to send  named  xxx was
> created by first taking a HTML file and running it through the html2ps
> program.

Try a simpler file, such as plain text or a TIFF file. The "html2ps" may
be doing very odd things to the Postscript.

> Reading the doco which seems to be out of date, sendfax doesn't seem to
> support the -d function anymore, it mentions a program called  ps2fax
> unfortunately this program is not on the Linux 6.3 cd set.

It's part of the HylaFAX package, and is normally in the
$SPOOLDIR/hylafax/bin directory.

Also remember that sendfax is sensitive to the order of its arguments.

Hit the web notes on Linux installations at
	http://cirl.meei.harvard.edu/hylafax/linux
for a decent walkthrough of the HylaFAX system.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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