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John Boyle

28 Jan 2004 28 Jan '04

23:04

To Add to the question nobody wants to answer: What is hylafax and where does one get it? Is it better than WinFaxPro? :-)

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Bruce Marshall

28 Jan 28 Jan

23:09

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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 06:04 pm, John Boyle wrote:

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To Add to the question nobody wants to answer: What is hylafax and where does one get it? Is it better than WinFaxPro? :-)

You get it off the install disks for 9.0 (and I don't care whether or not it is better than WinFaxPro) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 01/28/04 18:08 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 'Life is short, but it''s wide.'

James Knott

23:57

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John Boyle wrote:

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To Add to the question nobody wants to answer: What is hylafax and where does one get it? Is it better than WinFaxPro? :-)

Of course it's better. It doesn't require Windows.

John Boyle

29 Jan 29 Jan

02:11

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James Knott wrote:

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John Boyle wrote:

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To Add to the question nobody wants to answer: What is hylafax and where does one get it? Is it better than WinFaxPro? :-)

Of course it's better. It doesn't require Windows.

To James Knott and Bruce Marshall: I thank you both for your answers, and, believe it or not, I did not know Hylafax was on the Suse disks. :-)

Carlos E. R.

01:53

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The Wednesday 2004-01-28 at 15:04 -0800, John Boyle wrote:

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To Add to the question nobody wants to answer: What is hylafax

A fax server program, very complete. You set it on one computer, and send faxes from any. You sends them as emails, for example, to the server, and this sends them out as faxes. I think there even are clients for windows.

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and where does one get it?

It is included by SuSE since... who knows.

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Is it better than WinFaxPro? :-)

Dunno. It acts like a server, not just a fax program. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

Dave Barton

02:55

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On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:04, John Boyle wrote:

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To Add to the question nobody wants to answer: What is hylafax and where does one get it?

Already answered by others.

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Is it better than WinFaxPro? :-)

It's not a case of better or worse, just different. If all you want to do is have your box sent & receive faxes like a normal fax machine, I very much doubt that Hylafax is what you are looking for. There is nothing like WinFax Pro available for Linux. The closest Linux app I have found is eFax with a gtk front end. I tried it for a while, but it definitely was not in the same league as WinFax, so I gave up and re-installed TalkWorks/WinFax Pro on a W98SE guest under VMware. Maybe I will live long enough to see a LinFax Pro ;-) HTH Dave

James Knott

11:54

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Dave Barton wrote:

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On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:04, John Boyle wrote:

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To Add to the question nobody wants to answer: What is hylafax and where does one get it?

Already answered by others.

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Is it better than WinFaxPro? :-)

It's not a case of better or worse, just different. If all you want to do is have your box sent & receive faxes like a normal fax machine, I very much doubt that Hylafax is what you are looking for. There is nothing like WinFax Pro available for Linux. The closest Linux app I have found is eFax with a gtk front end. I tried it for a while, but it definitely was not in the same league as WinFax, so I gave up and re-installed TalkWorks/WinFax Pro on a W98SE guest under VMware.

Maybe I will live long enough to see a LinFax Pro ;-)

I have PMFax, which is the Linux version of the OS/2 Faxworks. It appears to be OK, though not quite as good as Faxworks. However, I don't do as much faxing these days, as I used to.

Bruce Marshall

14:42

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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 09:55 pm, Dave Barton wrote:

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On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:04, John Boyle wrote:

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To Add to the question nobody wants to answer: What is hylafax and where does one get it?

Already answered by others.

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Is it better than WinFaxPro? :-)

It's not a case of better or worse, just different. If all you want to do is have your box sent & receive faxes like a normal fax machine, I very much doubt that Hylafax is what you are looking for. There is nothing like WinFax Pro available for Linux. The closest Linux app I have found is eFax with a gtk front end. I tried it for a while, but it definitely was not in the same league as WinFax, so I gave up and re-installed TalkWorks/WinFax Pro on a W98SE guest under VMware.

Maybe I will live long enough to see a LinFax Pro ;-)

HTH

Dave

There was a very good fax program (Primafax) that was sold by CDS-Inc but it broke with SUSE 9.0 and they appear to be incapable of fixing it. Not recommended. http://www.cds-inc.com/prod/primafaxlinux.html -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 01/29/04 09:34 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "The unnatural, that too is natural." - Gthe

Carl William Spitzer IV

1 Feb 1 Feb

03:47

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On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 06:42, Bruce Marshall

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There was a very good fax program (Primafax) that was sold by CDS-Inc but it broke with SUSE 9.0 and they appear to be incapable of fixing it. Not recommended.

http://www.cds-inc.com/prod/primafaxlinux.html

What about 8.2? is the source available? Tar or RPM? CWSIV

Jerry Westrick

29 Jan 29 Jan

07:08

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The programs are designed different. WinFaxPro - turns your windows/modem into a fantastic private fax system. Hylafax - turns your linux/modem into a fantastic office faxing system. That's reason they are a little hard to compare. A couple examples of what HylaFax can do: My brother's office in houston has every fax sent/recieved to/from it in the last 4 years burned on CDs. My brother gets emails (with the fax attached) when ever a fax comes into his office. When someone in the office prints to fax, they get an email (latter on) saying if and when the fax got through, theese are included in the project folders, as proof of sending.... I think you get the Idea. An office fax... Jerry On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 00:04, John Boyle wrote:

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To Add to the question nobody wants to answer: What is hylafax and where does one get it? Is it better than WinFaxPro? :-)

Carl William Spitzer IV

1 Feb 1 Feb

03:47

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Other than the little information in the Suse HELP in KDE I dont find much. Basically I need to print and receive faxes. I have an external supra 2750 modem. Would this function interfear with using wgetty for receiving voice mail which is more important when I am out? CWSIV On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 23:08, Jerry Westrick

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The programs are designed different.

WinFaxPro - turns your windows/modem into a fantastic private fax system.

Hylafax - turns your linux/modem into a fantastic office faxing system.

That's reason they are a little hard to compare.

A couple examples of what HylaFax can do:

My brother's office in houston has every fax sent/recieved to/from it in the last 4 years burned on CDs.

My brother gets emails (with the fax attached) when ever a fax comes into his office.

When someone in the office prints to fax, they get an email (latter on) saying if and when the fax got through, theese are included in the project folders, as proof of sending....

I think you get the Idea. An office fax...

Jerry

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 00:04, John Boyle wrote:

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To Add to the question nobody wants to answer: What is hylafax and where does one get it? Is it better than WinFaxPro? :-)

Carlos E. R.

16:47

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The Sunday 2004-01-31 at 19:47 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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Other than the little information in the Suse HELP in KDE I dont find much.

What is wrong with "/usr/share/doc/packages/hylafax/html/index.html"? Isn't .6 megabytes of html documentation enough for you? :-? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

James Knott

2 Feb 2 Feb

22:52

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Sunday 2004-01-31 at 19:47 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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Other than the little information in the Suse HELP in KDE I dont find much.

What is wrong with "/usr/share/doc/packages/hylafax/html/index.html"? Isn't .6 megabytes of html documentation enough for you? :-?

Hmmm... I don't have /usr/share/doc/packages/.

Carlos E. R.

3 Feb 3 Feb

02:01

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The Monday 2004-02-02 at 17:52 -0500, James Knott wrote:

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What is wrong with "/usr/share/doc/packages/hylafax/html/index.html"? Isn't .6 megabytes of html documentation enough for you? :-?

Hmmm... I don't have /usr/share/doc/packages/.

Impossible! Then you don't have a SuSE. Those files are included on the hylafax rpm made by SuSE. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

James Knott

23:06

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Monday 2004-02-02 at 17:52 -0500, James Knott wrote:

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What is wrong with "/usr/share/doc/packages/hylafax/html/index.html"? Isn't .6 megabytes of html documentation enough for you? :-?

Hmmm... I don't have /usr/share/doc/packages/.

Impossible! Then you don't have a SuSE. Those files are included on the hylafax rpm made by SuSE.

ls /usr/share/doc/packages/hy* /bin/ls: /usr/share/doc/packages/hy*: No such file or directory Nope, no hylafax directory. However, I didn't specifically install it. Is it part of the standard install?

Patrick Shanahan

23:32

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* James Knott [02-03-04 18:28]:

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ls /usr/share/doc/packages/hy* /bin/ls: /usr/share/doc/packages/hy*: No such file or directory

Nope, no hylafax directory.

However, I didn't specifically install it. Is it part of the standard install?

Did you look? pin hylafax -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org

Carl William Spitzer IV

6 Feb 6 Feb

03:48

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I got the no archives message. On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 15:32, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* James Knott [02-03-04 18:28]:

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ls /usr/share/doc/packages/hy* /bin/ls: /usr/share/doc/packages/hy*: No such file or directory

Nope, no hylafax directory.

However, I didn't specifically install it. Is it part of the standard install?

Did you look?

pin hylafax

-- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org

Patrick Shanahan

04:33

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* Carl William Spitzer IV [02-05-04 22:47]:

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I got the no archives message.

man pin man or info will explain _most_ of the commands available. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org

Carlos E. R.

4 Feb 4 Feb

04:25

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The Tuesday 2004-02-03 at 18:06 -0500, James Knott wrote:

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Hmmm... I don't have /usr/share/doc/packages/.

Impossible! Then you don't have a SuSE. Those files are included on the hylafax rpm made by SuSE.

ls /usr/share/doc/packages/hy* /bin/ls: /usr/share/doc/packages/hy*: No such file or directory

Nope, no hylafax directory.

However, I didn't specifically install it. Is it part of the standard install?

Have you installed hylafax? How on earth do you intend to look at hylafax documentation if you have not installed hylafax? Of course it is not installed by default, not everybody wants a fax server running. Notice: installing doesn't mean running it, at least not till you configure it. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

Carl William Spitzer IV

6 Feb 6 Feb

03:48

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not found. ill check with kpackage. CWSIV On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 08:47, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Sunday 2004-01-31 at 19:47 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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Other than the little information in the Suse HELP in KDE I dont find much.

What is wrong with "/usr/share/doc/packages/hylafax/html/index.html"? Isn't .6 megabytes of html documentation enough for you? :-?

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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