On May 20, 2003 02:05 am, Randy Perkins wrote: > hello, > sending and recieving faxes is something i have still been doing > on my wifes windows machine. i bought a modem (intel ham 536ep) and > have tested it with a ppp connection. I am ready to start using linux > to send and recieve faxes. > > i am using rh9 > > i checked out redhat-config-packages, but didnt see anything about > faxing. > > i did a little searching and am wondering which applications to use. > > i want to send/recieve faxes in Xwindows/KDE. > > right now i have none of these apps installed. > > should i use efax + klprfax ? > mgetty ? > mgetty-sendfax ? > some other combination ? > > right now if i try to send a fax thru konqueror > a dialog box pops up 'kdeprintfax' > which craps out due to lack of /usr/bin/fax > i noticed efax provides a /usr/bin/fax > but klprfax doesnt show a dependency on efax > ??? > > > what combination of apps provides sending/recieving of faxes in > Xwindows/KDE? Remember in Windows when you send a fax the "printer" has to be defined as a "fax utility". This is what klprfax does (note the "pr") in the name. It converts your document to fax for sending. Efax can both send and receive faxes. For sending from the command-line, you would use mgetty and mgetty-sendfax. Efax has a GUI interface, and you can get further information here: http://www.cce.com/efax/ Also, I would *strongly* recommend visiting and bookmarking the "JustLinux" site (formerly Linuxnewbie.Org), which is at: http://www.justlinux.com, which is most invaluable and has many "newbieized" HOWTOs for the linux beginner. If you are doing a fairly large amont of faxing you might also want to check out Hylafax (search on http://www.google.com). cheers & HTH, Elton ;-) -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other." LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board.
