Re: Linux and Faxing

[Lane Lester <llester mindspring com>]

slana wrote:
> A few weeks ago I asked a similiar question. I was disgusted that I had
> to switch to "The Empire" just to fire off a quick Fax. The basic 'fax'
> and  'send' commands in the RH 5.2 dist I have, seemed to be an easy
> route but I couldnt get it to configure properly with my external modem,
> though I did get as far as dialing out and actually connecting to
> another modem . I have not yet figured out how to change my modem
> translation error code. :-( 
> You might have better luck with yours.

Not yet, and it sure seems ridiculous to have to struggle this much
with such a basic office function.  I have efax receiving OK, but no
luck with sending yet.

My first attempt at compiling xfax, the X interface for efax, was
unsuccessful--no surprise there.

> Others suggested Hylafax with Kfax to me. 

I've likewise been only partially successful with Hylafax.  One
advantage is that there is an active email list for this package, and
if I'm willing to spend the hours working on it, I'm pretty sure I
could get the thing going.

Kfax is a nice program for viewing and printing faxes, and I've used it
with efax-received faxes.

> I have seen other functioning Linux Fax programs
> listed as well.

Interesting!  I've only seen references to efax and Hylafax.

> By the way did you ever get SANE working ? For some reason that was one
> of my few "no messages" installs .  Did you subscribe to the SANE list ?
> SANE and GIMP  work extremely well together for the last two or three
> years I have used them.

No, lots more frustration there.  I got the missing dependencies for
gtk and libjpeg.   I've got those, but they caused their own problems,
and I got too disgusted to keep fiddling.

This whole thing with images (faxes, scans, digital photos) is a big
gap between the things I do a lot of with Win NT and can't do =any=
with Linux.

There's a lot to hate about Linux... it's a good thing there's a lot to
like, too.

Lane

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