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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!psgrain!nntp.teleport.com!ip-pdx07-05 From: nailers@teleport.com (Blake Swensen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: flexfax Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 14:28:43 GMT Organization: Teleport Internet Services Corp. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4eb3t1$ptj@maureen.teleport.com> References: <4drim4$1b8@news.cityscape.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-pdx07-05.teleport.com To: rpoel@infohighway.co.uk X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 I tangled with flexfax for quite a while... this is what I learned. First of all you need the X11R6 libraries. I copied them from the live file system CDROM to save myself the hassles of trying to install it. It's like this: FlexFax (now called HylaFax) needs Ghostscript; Ghostscript needs the AFM fonts (I think) and X11R6 libraries. After I installed HylaFax, I got the same problem. So I installed GhostScript and got the errors that it couldn't find the X11 libraries. So I copied them from the live file system CDROM and TA-DA! Sorry, can't answer why the modem isn't working. I am assuming that you are running faxgetty and have made all the appropriate changes to /etc/ttys. Also, I took a shot in the dark and configured the /etc/modems and the gettytab files as if HylaFax was using tip and needed the default settings. You can find more information on how to set these up from the handbook. You may also want to surf out to http://www.vix.com/flexfax/ for a FAQ on the subject. One thing you will not find, however, is a discussion of the prerequisite software/libraries neede to make the bugger work. Blake