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Article #55788Re: fax
From: James Cribb
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:00
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gmkelly@zip.com.au (Grahame M. Kelly - Linux User) writes: | | Yes, I had problems setting up Hylafax, but this was due totally yo my | inexperience, too much setting up to do, and I am basically lazy. I don't consider myself lazy or inexperienced, but I also found Hylafax far too hard to set up. There is an RPM for it but that just copies hundreds of files to scores of directories -- you still need to configure it before you can use it. It also required a couple of other packages I didn't have that were even harder to install. Efax was much easier, although I still had to fiddle with the viewer parameters in the "fax" shell script to get readable resolution. Trial and error eventually led me to this: VIEW='$EFIX -ve -opgm -s3x3 -r600x400 $f' --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,3ebda6a3b6f0f530 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: jamesc@zipper.zip.com.au (James Cribb) Subject: Re: fax Date: 1997/04/30 Message-ID: <5k73fc$p6p$1@the-fly.zip.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 238396247 References: <cv14k5.h3a.ln@bushrock.zip.com.au> Organization: The Zipsters Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux