Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: => => hmm, learning curve? => => i set up efax and was able to fax almost immediately. Is there anything => i forgot to learn? =>
I obviously lack intelligence. Coming from a Windows background I was used to installing a Fax application from a floppy disk and printing to it from any Windows application. Took all of 5 minutes and worked immediately. That was my starting point. I spent a long time trying to get mgetty/sendfax working, got more and more frustrated. I ended up finding that my modem at the time was not supported - wrong class. Hours wasted. Tried the SuSE implementation of Fax and got nowhere. I gave up and dual-booted into Windows whenever I wanted to send a Fax. Then I discovered a message sent to a list or newsgroup, just like the message I sent to Cuno today. That was more help to me than anything else, with some tinkering I managed to get things partially working. I was plagued with minor problems and had to make some changes to fax itself. The process was most definitely *not* intuitive or simple. I would say a steep learning curve for the average person Then there is the indignity of having to send a fax, which is a graphical object, from the command line. That calls for a different mindset for the average user. => > use fax script. It's doing all the conversion for you You see, here we go again, what is fax script? I assume you mean the command 'fax'. How does this differ from what I proposed? I am pleased for you that you found it all so easy. -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux (Potato)
