I wonder if he's asking about its ability to act as a daemon? Efax Can be set up using getty, in standby mode, through initd. The docs with efax do a reasonable job of describing the line you add to the conf file for this. Efax then sits around waiting for the phone to ring. Local/remote (network) faxing can be done though its use as a print filter in printcap.
I want to go back to it (noticed someone else mentioned unstable fixing a USRobotics problem, which I seemed to have while using it). Hylafax has not worked properly for me yet. Kenward On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:07:33PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:54:49PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:17:38 -0600, matthschulz said: > > > > > I use efax since about a year and I'm happy with that. > > > > > Does efax also require the use of a fax server (such as Hylafax server) or > > can it send faxes directly? > > > > -- > > Andrew > > > > Just noticed that your question is still > unanswered .. I advocated efax as well when > this thread was started. > > NO, efax does not need a background daemon/ > server. It directly dials and sends fax in > Class 1&2 modems. The interaction is through > command line only .. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --