Re: Problem faxing text files using WHFC 0.2b

["C.W.P. Schoenmakers" <cschoen@solair1.inter.NL.net>]

Hi there,

could 'enscript' do any good here?

kees


On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> jackb@pgw.picker.com wrote:
>     
>     Hylafax Version: 4.0P11
>     Platform: Dec Alpha
>     OS: 4.0
>     Winhyla (Version 0.2b(Alpha)
>     
>     I have a problem using thw Win-95 interface to Hylafax (WHFC).  I
>     can fax postscript files, but NOT text files.  The text files get
>     queued up normally, but they DO NOT get converted to postscript
>     like they do with the tkhylafax interface or the command line
>     "sendfax -d number file.txt".
> 
> sendfax(1) makes use of textfmt(1) to generate PostScript
> from text (ASCII) and tkhylafax uses sendfax(1) to submit jobs;
>     
>     ls -l /usr/var/spool/fax/docq
>     total 2
>     -rw-rw----   1 uucp     60002        156 Feb 10 09:09 doc21.ps.20
>     -rw-------   1 uucp     uucp           2 Feb 10 09:09 seqf
>     
>     file doc21.ps.20
>     doc21.ps.20:    ascii text
>     
>     Is there something I have to configure for this to happen?
> 
> the WHFC client directly creates a job through the protocol which
> clients have to speak with hfaxd(1M); so the submitted
> file must be a PostScript file (which is translated to
> TIFF/F by ps2fax(1M) on the fly) or must be TIFF/F;
> 
> if I understand the things right there is no way to submit
> a text file through the hfaxd(1M)-protocol;
> 
> 	matthias
>