Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: In this case, efax should have worked nicely with -d /dev/ttyS0, too... Or -d /dev/com1, if you prefer the Windows names... yes, now that I understand how cygwin works it's easy :) so: efax works, but it has few warnings here and there related to the serial ports and

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Alessio Sangalli wrote: so: efax works, but it has few warnings here and there related to the serial ports and terminals. Is there some cygwin developer which is interested in including this program into the cygwin ditribution? I could try to solve the compatibility

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Brian Ford wrote: You don't need to be a cygwin developer to get a package included in the distribution. See: http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting if you are interested in maintaining it yourself. Interesting procedure. But the facts are: I'm not a real cygwin user because I work with Linux

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:29:14AM +0200, Alessio Sangalli wrote: I will try to prepare a package ready for the distribution, I don't know if I will be able to maintain it... If you can't maintain it, then don't bother submitting it. Maintenance is an integral part of the procedure. cgf --

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Christopher Faylor wrote: If you can't maintain it, then don't bother submitting it. Maintenance is an integral part of the procedure. That's why I asked if some developer was interested. Efax is a rather stable software which doesn't change so much. As far as I know, there is no equivalent

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:09:31AM +0200, Alessio Sangalli wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: If you can't maintain it, then don't bother submitting it. Maintenance is an integral part of the procedure. That's why I asked if some developer was interested. If some developer was interested in

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-03 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Try ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem. FWIW, RedHat 7.2 Linux doesn't have /dev/modem, and neither do some other Linuces/Unices, so the above program is non-portable to say the least. Uh? I want this program to run under WINDOWS on the cygwin environment... I know how to let

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-03 Thread Alessio Sangalli
, thought there are some warnings, but I've sent a fax and it's perfect! Thank you!!! PS sorry if I didn't undertsand the suggestion at first. Thank you again...!! Igor was pointing out that it isn't just Cygwin that efax doesn't port to directly, since /dev/modem doesn't necessarily exist

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
actually need a real /dev/ttyS0 file. ja!!! it works nicely, thought there are some warnings, but I've sent a fax and it's perfect! Thank you!!! PS sorry if I didn't undertsand the suggestion at first. Thank you again...!! Igor was pointing out that it isn't just Cygwin that efax doesn't

efax on cygwin

2004-05-02 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Hi, I would like to send faxes with the eafx program under cygwin. I've tried to compile it and I had to hack a bit the source and the Makefile. You can donwload the efax sources at: http://www.cce.com/efax/ I've used the stable release:

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Alessio Sangalli wrote: Hi, I would like to send faxes with the eafx program under cygwin. I've tried to compile it and I had to hack a bit the source and the Makefile. You can donwload the efax sources at: http://www.cce.com/efax/ I've used the stable release: