Re: [hylafax-users] textfmt picky about filenames?

[Lee Howard <faxguy@howardsilvan.com>]

On 2003.06.17 09:19 Liem Bahneman wrote:
> 
> When I send a _postscript_ file with carat's in the file name through
> sendfax, when it calls textfmt, it tries to break the filename apart
> on
> the carats (and according to truss, exec 'foo').
> 
> sendfax -D -m -k "now +72 hours" -n -f 'user@host.com' -d '55512123'
> "foo^bar"
>  sh: foo: not found
>  sh: bar: cannot open
> Error converting data; command was "/opt/hylafax/sbin/textfmt -B -f
> Courier-Bold  -p 11 -s default >/tmp//sndfaxQ_aaL5 < foo^bar"
> 
> However, when I run the textfmt command as displayed, it works. So
> somewhere in the handoff between sendfax and textfmt, the carat is
> throwing a wrench in. Truss says its trying to exec 'bar' and open()
> 'foo':
> 
> 29989:  stat64("/usr/sbin/bar", 0xFFBFF880)            Err#2 ENOENT
> 29991:  creat64("/tmp//sndfaxsxaiK6", 0666)             = 5
> 29989:  stat64("/usr/bin/bar", 0xFFBFF880)             Err#2 ENOENT
> 29991:  fcntl(1, F_GETFD, 0x00000000)                   = 0
> 29989:  stat64("/opt/hylafax/bin/bar", 0xFFBFF880)     Err#2 ENOENT
> 29991:  close(1)                                        = 0
> 29991:  fcntl(5, F_DUPFD, 0x00000001)                   = 1
> 29989:  stat64("/opt/hylafax/sbin/bar", 0xFFBFF880)    Err#2 ENOENT
> 29991:  close(5)                                        = 0
> 29989:  stat64("/usr/local/bin/bar", 0xFFBFF880)       Err#2 ENOENT
> 29991:  open64("bar", O_RDONLY)                        Err#2 ENOENT
> 
> 
> This only occurs on postscript files, it happily processes the file if
> its
> a tiff!
> 
> Can anyone explain this behavior? What executable/script is the "^"
> throwing off?

I cannot duplicate your problem here using RedHat Linux 7.1.

HOWEVER, I suspect that you can remedy your problem by editing the 
relevant typerules entry to place quotes around the input file.  Like 
this:

diff -Nru hylafax.orig/util/typerules hylafax/util/typerules
--- hylafax.orig/util/typerules	Mon Jun 16 16:26:00 2003
+++ hylafax/util/typerules	Fri Jun 20 11:13:31 2003
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
  0       string          #Inventor V	error	IRIS Inventor 
file  >15     string          binary		error	binary IRIS 
Inventor file
  >15     string          ascii		ps	%F/textfmt -B -f 
Courier-Bold\
-						-Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <%i
+						-Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <"%i"
  #
  # Japanization (should help other iso-2022 variants too)
  #
@@ -144,9 +144,9 @@
  # This causes anything else with ascii-only data to be treated as 
text.
  #
  0	ascii		x		ps	%F/textfmt -B -f 
Courier-Bold\
-						-Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <%i
+						-Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <"%i"
   #  Support 7-bit text which would otherwise be seen as binary.
  #
  0	byte		x		ps	%F/textfmt -B -f 
Courier-Bold \
-							  -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <%i
+							  -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <"%i"

You may need to escape those quotes (perhaps even escape the escape) 
like this:

diff -Nru hylafax.orig/util/typerules hylafax/util/typerules
--- hylafax.orig/util/typerules	Mon Jun 16 16:26:00 2003
+++ hylafax/util/typerules	Fri Jun 20 11:13:31 2003
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
  0       string          #Inventor V	error	IRIS Inventor 
file  >15     string          binary		error	binary IRIS 
Inventor file
  >15     string          ascii		ps	%F/textfmt -B -f 
Courier-Bold\
-						-Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <%i
+						-Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <\"%i\"
  #
  # Japanization (should help other iso-2022 variants too)
  #
@@ -144,9 +144,9 @@
  # This causes anything else with ascii-only data to be treated as 
text.
  #
  0	ascii		x		ps	%F/textfmt -B -f 
Courier-Bold\
-						-Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <%i
+						-Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <\"%i\"
   #  Support 7-bit text which would otherwise be seen as binary.
  #
  0	byte		x		ps	%F/textfmt -B -f 
Courier-Bold \
-							  -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <%i
+							  -p 11 -s 
%s >%o <\"%i\"

HOWEVER, textfmt shouldn't be called to process PostScript files in the 
first place.  So you may want to check on the validity of the 
PostScript files you're using.

Lee.


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