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From: pf@elissa.hc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: freebsd & faxing?
Date: 24 Oct 1995 19:22:49 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments
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In-reply-to: ccjason@quadrophenia.ucdavis.edu's message of 23 Oct 1995 07:53:19 GMT
Date: 23 Oct 1995 07:53:19 GMT
From: ccjason@quadrophenia.ucdavis.edu (Jason Gabler)
Didn't there used to be some package for FreeBSD called "flexfax"?
Anyoneknow what happened to it or other fax packages besides hylafax?
Flexfax is hylafax, or vice versa.
I found efax, a convenient small fax program, in a Linux group. It's
not nearly as powerful as flexfax, but it's fine for simple sending and
receiving and it works with my old class-1 modem and the April 2.0.5
snapshot. It handles text or (with ghostscript) PostScript. Here's
part of the README:
This is the README file for version 0.7a of efax, a program to
send and receive faxes using any Class 1 or Class 2 fax modem.
efax is a relatively small ANSI C/POSIX program that provides the
data transport function for fax applications. A simple shell
script (``fax'') is included in the distribution to let you
create, send, receive, view and print faxes.
efax is smaller and easier to install than FlexFax, NetFax, or
mgetty+sendfax. It uses your system's own getty to handle
incoming data calls. As one user put it, ``EFAX is a nice simple
program for single user systems.''
The package now includes the ``efix'' program to convert text,
fax or PBM files into fax, PBM, PGM, HP-PCL or Postscript files.
To fax Postscript images you will need Ghostscript. To preview
faxes you will need a PGM file viewer (e.g. xv or xloadimage).
If you don't have a PCL or Postscript printer you will need an
appropriate conversion program (e.g. pbmtoepson or Ghostscript) .
This version of the program was written & tested under Linux
0.99.14. Previous versions have been compiled and used under AIX
3.2.4, BSD, HP-UX, IRIX 5.2, NeXT, OSF/1V1.3, Solaris 2.x, SunOS
4.1.1/4.1.3, SCO 3.2.0, SysVR4.2, and ULTRIX 4.3 and should work
with minor changes on any modern UNIX with an ANSI C compiler and
library including select(2) and termios(4).
efax is distributed as a gzip'ed tar file, efax07a.tar.gz. It
may be obtained by anonymous FTP from sunsite.unc.edu in
/pub/Linux/Incoming or /pub/Linux/apps/comm/fax.
Paul Fuqua
Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas pf@hc.ti.com