With faxing through a fax-modem, you have two choices: Class 1: computer does a lot of work, very timing critical Class 2 or 2.0: modem does a lot of the work, many modems are buggy
Your Mileage will vary. Class 1 needs a dedicated or idle box. Class 2 needs a good modem. Other things: search around for fax2pdf, we have plugged it into hylafax, it is much cooler getting a PDF than a postscript file, and it's smaller in size, and looks better on screen, especially if you use acrobat 5 or ghostview with graphic smoothing, ideal for forwarding to others. fax2ps |ps2pdf will give you a much larger, uglier looking file. Beware the Tiff. tiff is a very multi-faceted file format, many tools which handle tiff only handle certain flavours. Tiffsplit is handy for splitting your fax into pages. cheers, Woody On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:17:16PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote: > Thanks to those who helped out, I now have Hylafax answering > the call now :) Damn that was easy. you have to have the following > command line > > faxgetty -D /dev/ttySx > > > > > > I was just wondering what was out there before I began tinkering with > > > hylafax. > > > > It's a bit baroque, but nice once it's going. Bit of a pain to integrate > > with other systems though (but it can be done). > > > > > Ok I can get hylafax to send using sendfax. but at the moment it is not > > > answering calls. weird... > > > > Have you run through faxsetup, etc? The documentation is okay. > > > > - Jeff > > > > -- > > I used the word 'infrastructure' when describing her cooking style... > > and she didn't speak to me for a week. > -- > Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
