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.
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