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To: Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk>
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Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> writes:

> Hi all folks,
>
> I need to install a fax software to fax text documents.
>
> $ make search name=fax | grep fax
> Port:   acfax-0.981011_1
> Path:   /usr/ports/comms/acfax
> Port:   efax-0.9a-001114a7
> Path:   /usr/ports/comms/efax
> Port:   gfax-0.5
> Path:   /usr/ports/comms/gfax
> Port:   ghfaxviewer-0.22.0_2
> Path:   /usr/ports/comms/ghfaxviewer
> Port:   hylafax-4.1.7
> Path:   /usr/ports/comms/hylafax
> Port:   tkhylafax-3.2b
> Path:   /usr/ports/comms/tkhylafax
> Port:   tkscanfax-1.02
> Path:   /usr/ports/comms/tkscanfax
> Port:   viewfax-2.3
> Path:   /usr/ports/comms/viewfax
>
> # which acfax
> # which acfax
> # which efax
> # which gfax
> # which ghfaxview
> # which hylafx
> # which tkhylafax
> # which tkscanfax
> t# which viewfax
> all : Command not found.
>
> I suppose they have not been installed.  Kindly advise which of them is easy 
> to config and suitable to fax text document.
>
> TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen
>

I use mgetty+sendfax (that's the port name). It accepts postscript or g3
format. For text input, it looks like pbmtext (from the netpbm
port/package) will convert text files to a suitable format (and then you
run pbm2g3, which is inclduded in the mgetty+sendfax pacakge).

-- 

  Dan Pelleg