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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:51:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com>
To:        crs@swcp.com (Charlie Sorsby)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hylafax -- Help!
Message-ID:  <199607312351.QAA26122@MediaCity.com>
In-Reply-To: <199607312243.QAA25218@kitsune.swcp.com> from Charlie Sorsby at "Jul 31, 96 04:43:10 pm"

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Charlie Sorsby wrote:

> What must I do to set up the hylafax suite on FreeBSD?  The man
> pages speak of a "server" but nowhere (that I've been able to find)
> does it say where this server may be found or how to set up the
> configuration files or ....

I supposed it depends on whether you have a port or a package or
simply the source.

Assuming you installed the executables via a package, or did a make
install via a port or the source, you simply run the program

faxaddmodem

It will do all the configuration for you.


> Oh--I'm not committed to hylafax.  If there's something better or
> easier to set up in the packages or ports, I'm open to suggestion.
> I'd just like to be able to use troff (actually, groff) to create
> PostScript files and then FAX to PostScript files as documents.

I've used both hylafax and mgetty+sendfax.

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