-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-02-13 at 23:09 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
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).
Well... Hylafax may seem an overkill, but it is the best fax software for linux I have seen, so much so that I refuse to try any other "simpler" software even for home use. For me, it worked first time I tried.
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?
Try to view the logfile as root, if you can not open it for viewing as user.
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.
Support personnel is not always sufficiently supportive, sometimes because they barely know how to answer the phone and are underpaid.
I also admit that I am grumpy at this point, and frustrated by being stymied by what should be a very simple operation.
Well... I'm stymied that my half-new tv set just broke down and I'm afraid I lost 300€. I'm stymied that there is not modern software to edit manpages in a manner that does not require the writer to be a programmer. Welcome to the stymied group. :-p
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.
I meant that the user manuals on line of your modem are surely findable. I told you where I found mine, yours will be nearby. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHs3citTMYHG2NR9URArLXAJ4ixE6a2NrzlGkCocw67jc8KPZaaACdErPm Etahw/TwfqqTHTWDHeSaWsI= =BqmJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----