As I've never installed the mandrake version of "e-fax" I'm not sure about 
that one. The service tho I am familiar with. It's a windows thingy, does 
require a "helper" program to function,available from the site of 
course,there is also a fee to use the expanded service,and yes..their 
documents do have an efx extension.

Lee


On Sunday 25 November 2001 08:57, you wrote:
> ehhh... it's a different "e-fax" I believe. one that MDK supplies is a
> program to fax (like hylafax, or in M$winder$, winfax) and the other is a
> service that offers a free fax phone number, and you recieve your fax via
> e-mail. I believe they make there money by being the recieving service for
> long distance charges from the sender, or added charges for a local or 800
> fax number, but it does require some (as far as I know) helper program to
> view the document (it will have an .efx extension I believe).
>
> On Friday 23 November 2001 21:36, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thought Mandrake 8.1 CDs have efax viewer on them.
> >
> > Seedkum
> >
> > "David E. Fox" wrote:
> > > > I am looking for a program to view my efax documents.  EFax.com
> > > > states that I could use any TIFF Image viewer to open these
> > > > documents.  But all
> > >
> > > The fax software might store the pages in separate files (like
> > > fax.1.g3, fax.2.g3, etc.)
> > >
> > > I am not sure if this is the case here, though. Fax format, as far as
> > > I know, isn't quite TIFF: it's in a format called g3. I'm not sure what
> > > the differences are.
> > >
> > > If you have imagemagick and/or the netpbm packages, there should be
> > > something that would let you convert g3's to something else. Ghostview
> > > may also be useful here, since I'm pretty sure that ghostscript can
> > > convert (using the dfaxhigh "printer") from fax format to PostScript.
> > >
> > > > John Turek
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >- David E. Fox                              Thanks for letting me
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]                            change magnetic patterns
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]               on your hard disk.
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com


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