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#! rnews 1566 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!eff!sed.psrw.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!spunky.RedBrick.COM!kaos.RedBrick.COM!duncan From: duncan@kaos.RedBrick.COM (Donald Duncan) Subject: Re: freebsd & faxing? Message-ID: <1995Nov1.001930.16921@RedBrick.COM> Sender: usenet@RedBrick.COM (Net News Account) Reply-To: duncan@redbrick.com Organization: RedBrick, Los Gatos CA References: <46fhlf$co0@mark.ucdavis.edu> <PF.95Oct24142249@elissa.hc.ti.com> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:19:30 GMT Lines: 25 In article <PF.95Oct24142249@elissa.hc.ti.com>, pf@elissa.hc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua) writes: |> 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: |> Also try sendfax, which contains mgetty/vgetty plug-ins. It ported to FreeBSD almost immediately and supports data, voice and fax provided you have the correct modem type. Look on freebsd.cdrom.com somewhere in the Linux area. -- duncan@redbrick.com (Donald Duncan)