On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 10:45 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
On Sunday 10 February 2008 05:12:08 Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 21:48 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
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?
Locate a copy of jhylafax, and install this. You will have a GUI front end for sending faxes. Note, the version that I have does not auto update the send state of the fax, and with the modem speaker turned off you will not really know if your phone line is free. BTW there is KdeprintFax (kdeprintfax -caption "%c" %i %m %u -- on the command line.)
Very interesting. After a lot of googling, jHylafax never turned up. But now I know why SUSEfax has been a decade without update -- it morphed to jHylaFax. Since the SUSEfax page still exists at Sourceforge, on the other hand, one wonders why its developer hasn't thought to put a single sentence in it to point to jHylaFax. I do have a thought about that, but this isn't the place for it.
Thank you much for your information.
I no longer have the archive kicking around my system, but I can compress and send you the directory that I un-archived it into. I copied this over to /opt/jhylafax. I altered the script to run it from there and placed it in my /home/<user>/bin directory. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org