Date: Thu, 4 Jan 96 9:43:25 EDT From: M C Wong <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com> To: fb@sponsor.octet.com (FreeBSD user) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hylafax Message-ID: <199601032243.AA253149008@relay.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <199601031530.PAA01974@sponsor.octet.com>; from "FreeBSD user" at Jan 3, 96 3:30 pm
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > any hylafax users with freebsd 2.1?? > I just cannot get this thing working, and the documentation is very vague. > basically i want to enable an email address to automatically route to > our fax machine, and possibly other numbers. > anyone willing to help? :) Yes, I am using it myself. Sending is fine with no problem on text only or graphics-intensive pages. I have a problem, though, with receiving incoming fax! The symptoms being that I always receive half of the sent pages if they are NOT TYPED IN (say from a computer and/or typewriter), ie if someone sent me an A4 page of hand-written message, I always get half or less of it, and it is worse for fax with graphics. I can confirmed and reproduced this behavior when sending a fax via the tpc Internet fax server, the cover page is received in less than half, while the TYPED in ascii text are received in full! I have the same problems with two different modems, unfortunately though, both with the same chipset, ie rockwell. The modems used are : Netcomm E34F and Dynalink 1414QVE. When I did faxadd on either modem, I did get a strange message saying things like : ( I can't remember the actual wording now) something seems to hang, reset your modem eh ? I didn't do anything to reset, and it DID continue to the end somehow. Well, that's all I can say about Hylafax experience. Apart from that, everything seems working fine. The other part which I don't really like is during the configuration it prompts you for international dialing prefix and is very much US-centered as it will not accept string for Australia, 0011! You have to do manual editing of /var/spool/fax/etc/config.<dev>! 8-(( - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M.C Wong Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com Australian Telecom Operation Voice: +61 3 9210 5568 Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd Fax: +61 3 9210 5550 P.O. Box 221, Blackburn 3130, Australia OS: FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 http://www-ato.aus.hp.com/~mcw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMOsGhUmThh0X7Um5AQF/fAQApd1TaZPen1ASJix3aFpsAihV5yN0ba54 xMdrc1LcRqEOfwBYdoi5rh90FvUn/Bhet1uYsNj7OOo804vBoYEV/lTVI8Yrzu1G FdLdzI3EIEpxPguNiBGF6MlOHbW322WGeS8Umd/IlxCHBHkDFuxmMz/D++jWMT5d HH4OijkgQiw= =OGQ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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