On Wed, Dec 12, 2007, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:25 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>> >On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 00:56 +0100, Vincent Knecht wrote:
>> >> > All....
>> >> >
>> >> > I am trying to install vsifax on a 64 bit Centos 5.1 system. The Esker
>> >> > staff have been helpful but no cigar.
>> >> >
>> >> > At first they thought the problem might be related to a 64 bit machine
>> >> > so I tried to install vsifax on a 32 bit Centos 5.1 machine and received
>> >> > the same error.
>> >> >
>> >> > One of their installation scripts is trying to execute a binary called
>> >> > eula which fails.
>> >> >
>> >> > ./eula: cannot execute binary file
>> >>
>> >> maybe just retry after invoking that command ?
>> >> chmod +x eula
>> >>
>> >
>> >Thanks for the suggestion. I probably should have posted the deails.
>> >I was actually hoping that the protections was the issue but looks to me
>> >that it is not
>>
>> Have you looked at HylaFax, an open source fax system for *nix
>> systems that has been around for many years (it started life as
>> flexfax, but had to change the name since somebody else had it).
>> We have been using HylaFax on various Linux systems for well over
>> a decade with excellent results (and we hosted their mailing list
>> for several years before they registered hylafax.org).
>>
>> http://www.hylafax.org/
>>
>> Another commercial package for *nix systems is Faximum. This too
>> has been around since the early '90s.
...
>
>Bill,
>
>Thanks for taking the time to suggest hylafax. We need to be able to
>convert *.pcl files to tiff files either at the time of faxing or the
>fax module needs to do this for us. Does hylafax have the capability to
>convert pcl to tif? vsifax has done what we needed, but to my surprise
>the more I talk with them the more I get the impression they are not
>actively wanting to support it for Unix/Linux systems.
Personally I haven't had any need for PCL->FAX translation, but somebody
else suggested ImageMagick which has lots of conversion options as does
ghostscript.
I often send faxes from HylaFAX with PDF documents. It handles PostScript,
plain-text, and a variety of image formats as well.
Bill
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