From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 3 02:59:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA10105 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 02:59:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from iaehv.IAEhv.nl (root@iaehv.IAEhv.nl [192.87.208.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA10098 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 02:58:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by iaehv.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) id LAA07800; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:58:50 +0100 X-Disclaimer: iaehv.nl is a public access UNIX system and cannot be held responsible for the opinions of its individual users. Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA08436 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:48:32 +0100 Message-Id: <199603031048.LAA08436@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Problem implementing a general faxpopup for FreeBSD Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 11:48:30 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 ----------------------------------------------------