Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3572 mails)

[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 20:53:54 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Wednesday 2008-02-13 at 19:57 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > 1) I understood that the program is capable of providing a virtual
> > printer, so that one can print from an application. I don't know how
> > to do this, and it is nowhere mentioned, as far as I could see. I
> > assume that a driver for it would have to pipe content through
> > ghostscript to efax-gtk, but that is the limit of my guessing.
>
> It's better to use cups and hylafax for the purpose. Others use samba
> instead.

HylaFAX is out. The reason I dropped it and switched to trying to get 
efax-gtk to work is that a through read of the HylaFAX documentation I 
assempled led me to believe that HylaFAX (which is anyway gross overkill 
for me) is too complex for me to overcome. efax just looked like a 
simpler thing to get started -- I still think it would be, if the 
developer had not dropped the project in the middle (yes, I know it is 
still supported, that isn't what I mean).
> http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/HylaFAX?q=cups&sa=Search
>
> > 2) Although there is now no error about being able to find the log
> > file I have defined, when I try to open the log I get a warning
> > reading: "Cannot open logfile for viewing". Why is one of the
> > mysteries of the early 21st century.
>
> Try as root via command line.

Do what from the command line? The program has been starting itself at 
boot. When I shut it down, I start it again from Alt-F2. When I use the 
command line to find where files are, I am always su.

> > I do of course have a faxmodem, external USR 56K. It came without any
> > documentation, only a CD with software for installing in WinCrap.
>
> The manual is probably a PDF inside.

So it is. I certainly should have thought of that myself. The people who 
have been writing to me from USR also might have dropped a word about it, 
but I should have thought of it. In any case, that isn't involved in the 
problem at hand with efax-gtk in any way.

I also admit that I am grumpy at this point, and frustrated by being 
stymied by what should be a very simple operation.

> > I have
> > been hammering on USR support for three weeks to get a printed or
> > downloadable user guide, but evidently USR doesn't believe in such
> > things anymore. The world is not what it once was.
>
> Oh, common!

That's OT, but if you want to discuss it off-list, we can.

> Here is mine:
>
> http://www.usr-emea.com/support/s-prod-template.asp?loc=unkg&prod=5630
>
> Six manuals, user guide, faqs, etc. Drivers, firmware updtes... the
> lot.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>         Carlos E. R.



-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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