I would like to be able to send and receive faxes using my openSUSE v10.3 system. A bit of looking around showed that there are not many applications to do this -- actually only one, HylaFax, which I thought likely to be more capable than the combination of sendfax+mgetty, I have downloaded and installed HylaFax. Surprisingly, HylaFax does not sport a GUI, as far as I have been able to discover. I find it difficult to believe that many people, having acquired a sophisticated operating system like SuSE, will be content with command-line operation, so I have to wonder if I have overlooked another available application. What do people do for fax service in SuSE? Or do only few people use this OS for faxing? I have stumbled upon a Java app that is intended to be a GUI for HylaFax. This is SUSEFax, which seems to be the product of someone at SuSE in Germany. It was first released in 1997 (sic), but is also available in a later beta (v1.0beta3) dated 1999, even for x86_64 at RPM.PBONE.NET. It is labeled src.rpm for SuSE v9. Before I get into compiling it (something I have not done so far), I would like to ask some questions about it. The 1997 webpage says that the docs are in German only. A later user wrote on a forum that the 1999 release has English docs, but all the labels in the GUI are in German (a decade after first release, and still in beta). Does anyone have later information? Has the developer recovered a desire to finish what he started? The program shouts "Half-Done Abandonware" Fax apps on other OSes make the sending operation a matter of "printing" from the application that created the document to the fax app; does SUSEfax do that? This is not mentioned in any of the webpages I have found. It is said only that one can send faxes from the phone book. So at minimum, there are at least two stages in sending a fax. The HylaFax webpage speaks of the need for Ghostscript. What is this for? Since faxes arrive in raster form, not as either ASCII codes or Postscript formatting information, what does Ghostscript have to contribute to the fax function? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org