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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!portal!chris From: chris@shell.portal.com (Yanping Ding) Subject: Re: Flexfax for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <CE58ot.DwC@unix.portal.com> Sender: news@unix.portal.com Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe.shell.portal.com Organization: Portal Communications Company X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <28b5dt$db0@agate.berkeley.edu> <28c7t3$k90@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01:41:15 GMT Lines: 35 L Jonas Olsson (ljo@proteus.eeap.cwru.edu) wrote: : >Has anyone ported Flexfax for FreeBSD? : Yes, : Given the code from sgi.com/sgi/fax/v2.2beta<highest number>, all you : need to do is: : ./configure freebsd : You have to use GNU make. You also have to have a kernel with FIFO : support (options FIFO in config file). You might need to completely : delete your copile/<kernelname> before reconfiguring. I think the : expr, expr, etc in FreeBSD are now good enough for FlexFAX, so the : README in ports/freebsd is somewhat outdated. : Jonas I also compiled successfully as described above. Although I can receive faxes with out problems, I cannot send out ASCII files. textfmt is used to convert ASCII files into PS files. But somewhat ghostscript can not convert the PS files to tiffg3 files correctly for fax transmission. I didn't change anything to complie ghostscript. And it converts golfer.ps or tiger.ps correctly. Strangely, ghostscript complied on a SPARC can convert the textfmt output PS files to tiffg3 correctly. I have no idea if my problem is with FlexFax's textfmt or ghostscript. C. Ding -- Chris Ding chris@portal.shell.com