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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!newsdist.tc.umn.edu!uum1!newsserver!mark From: mark@jupiter.aggregate.com (Mark P. Gooderum, Software Engineer) Subject: Re: Flexfax Sender: usenet@newsserver.aggregate.com (Usenet News Administrative Account) Message-ID: <MARK.94Jul15143924@jupiter.aggregate.com> In-Reply-To: Timothy J Kniveton's message of Thu, 14 Jul 1994 23:22:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 19:39:23 GMT References: <CsxHxL.1IL@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <gi9U3hW00WB5IshVQD@andrew.cmu.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: jupiter.aggregate.com Organization: Aggregate Computing, Inc. Lines: 25 > i got the same errors when i tried a while ago. i think the package > is broken. Sorry, I missed the orignal (our newsserver expired early). What's the problem. I've been running FlexFax 2.2.2 from beta 10 to release. On NetBSD-current Only problem I had was hanging up the modem (there's an ifdef for an ioctl where they diddle DTR that does it wrong for NetBSD), a couple of broken calls to lseek() (post off_t changes) that didn't hurt me on a little endian machine but might on a big endian, and a Rockwell modem chip feature that was fixed in the final 2.2.2 release. The DTR problem was non-fatal depending on how you set up the modem and the tty, the lseek() problem was in libtiff and was lucky enough to be okay on my i386 (calling sequence consistently got 0's for the rest of the bytes) but would definitely be a big endian problem. The modem problem is that some Rockwell and Supras vary as to how they handshake (DC1 versus DC2) at one point. The symptom is consistently getting only the first few 1000 bytes of a given page (but continuing to get subsequent pages). -Mark