Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 11:48:30 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Problem implementing a general faxpopup for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199603031048.LAA08436@nietzsche.bowtie.nl>
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Hi, I got fed up with the lack of user-friendly faxsoftware for FreeBSD and decided to implement a faxpopup. The idea is to print to a 'fax' printer, which has this faxpopup as its inputfilter. It reads the postscript (or whatever stream your faxspool program supports) and lets you choose from a list of numbers, as an added extra, also lets you generate a frontpage at your leisure, and then feeds the pages to your faxspool program. I'm using mgetty+sendfax for this right now, but it could be any fax package, as long as it has the possibility to spool the fax with a command line utility. The problem however is that the DISPLAY environment variable does not seem to get passed to the faxpopup, but I need to know that to be able to support users working on a remote display. Does anyone have a good idea how to solve this? If I can make this work, it would be a very nice utility IMHO. I will also work on a console version, but the X-version has priority right now. Regards, Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------
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