Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 08:20:55 -0500 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org> To: Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fax software question Message-ID: <u2s4qt06bew.fsf@pelleg.org> In-Reply-To: <200403070808.42826.satimis@icare.com.hk> (Stephen Liu's message of "Sun, 7 Mar 2004 08:08:42 %2B0800") References: <200403070808.42826.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
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