On 23 Nov, Howard Arons wrote:

On Nov 20, 1998, Michael Perry wrote:

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I spent some time on hylafax + susefax and gave it up last nite. I downloaded from sunsite the efax and tefax packages which give an easy backend and a elm like front end for faxing. tefax compiled quite easily but the resource file appears to be in german.. Does anyone use tefax?

I have to admit that efax and fax and tefax took all of 15 minutes. This works quite well for a single workstation. You can also setup efax to run in automated mode to answer incoming calls.

Hooray! An alternative fax solution for those of us with a single box hooked to the Net by a dialup PPP connection. Sometime I think that we've been bypassed and forgotten :-)

Are there any other such plain vanilla fax solutions out there? I gotta' tell you, WinFax as a "printer driver" under Word/Win95 is simple, easy and works every time. That's what keeps me in the "Whatever OS does the job for you..." camp, but the dual boot is a bother.

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There is one other stand alone fax solution from www.insrc.com or something like that. They make a backup program and a fax program which uses statically compiled motif libs. This program has a nice interface but does not support my modem. Its unfortunate because this would probably be a great alternative. However, I really like the ease of efax and tefax so would not spring to purchase a commercial alternative. There also is a X based front end for efax/fax which is called (amazingly enough) Xfax. I compiled this okay but cannot get it working. OTOH, tefax works quite well with a minimum of fuss. Time spent on this solution about 15 - 30 minutes. Time spent on hylafax adds to the hours. I could not begin to estimate the number of beers that I had to drink to numb me :) -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

On 23 Nov, sandy wrote:

Michael Perry wrote:

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There is one other stand alone fax solution from www.insrc.com or something like that. They make a backup program and a fax program which uses statically compiled motif libs. This program has a nice interface but does not support my modem. Its unfortunate because this would probably be a great alternative. ....

Actually it's called HotWire EasyFAX, by Unisource Systems. It sells for USD99 though. <bummer> Their URL is: <A HREF="http://www.unisrc.com/HotWire.htm/"><A HREF="http://www.unisrc.com/HotWire.htm/</A">http://www.unisrc.com/HotWire.htm/</A</A>>

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Thats it. Thanks. I am adding this to my database of linux software providers. For me and my single machine, efax and tefax work really good and are easily setup. -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

On 24 Nov, Gerry Doris wrote:

I was looking at TeFax but the doc's were all in German. Did you find any English doc's???

I got xfax working, well, sort of. It does the dailing and sends my fax but for some reason it doesn't like the way my fax machine at work ends the session. xfax records a level 3 error and then proceeds to resend the fax (same number of times as the busy timeout).

The strange thing is that it works fine if I only send the built in cover page with a short message. It does the redail thing if I attach a file to send.

The good thing is that xfax recognizes the file format (ps or ascii) and automatically takes care of converting. Unfortunately xfax doesn't support receiving faxes.

I haven't got another fax machine to play with right now so I'm not sure if this is something peculiar with my work machine or is a problem with my modem/setup.

While efax is simple it does require it does seem to reqire some non trivial commands to use unless you have a front end (I could be wrong here as I haven't spend many hours on it :)

I still think that the unix world could learn a little from the ease of use of the Win9x world. To install WinFax Pro I just put in the disk and watched the install happen. When it was over I could send/receive faxes to my heart's content. It was automatically set up as a print server, I get notices if faxes arrive...and I didn't spend several days trying to wade through man files and type in esoteric modem commands.

Gerry

I could not get xfax to work reliably; however, tefax did almost out of the archive. For me, editing the fax script, changing to cua1 and some other stuff at the beginning was good enough. After getting the fax script right, tefax began working. I did notice it always calls up xedit as its default editor. I wish that someone would translate the resource file for tefax. It seems that it does a bit; but its hard to place its resources in some context. How about it SuSE list? Can someone translate a resource file for tefax into english? For me, winfax pro on NT was not a good thing. I wrestled with conflicting updates from symantec and suddenly could not upgrade anything because of some marker in the online update program. I now use the little MS fax program for NT which works quite well. On the linux side, I would have loved to use susefax+hylafax but could not. I agree that windows comm programs are simpler. I also think though that editing a text file was not terribly difficult in my case. The three commands for the fax script I needed to change was the default modem class, my name, and where the modem was located. I think using efax alone would be difficult so I would tend to write some simple scripts that would connect to various numbers. With tefax, I get a front end which is quite simple and easy to master. There also is a fax test program which checks out the modem and reports on it. -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e