Re: faxmail :attachment file ?

[Ben Parker <ben@dha.unon.org>]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Ben Parker wrote:

Just in case anyone has a clue, a script for image/gif:

giftopnm | pnmtops

does *not* work. It's not clear from the faxmail man page how these
scripts should be structured i.e as though it were receiving

script <GIF file

or where you get the input to the utility for processing.

The output should be tagged on to the covering message as PS if sucessful.
This issue would not be very significant but for the fact that sending PS
through faxmail doesn't work either as the graphic get squashed into the a
tiny bottom left corner by faxmail and sendfax. 

Thanks,

Ben

> > > (DISCARDED image/gif GOES HERE)
> > 
> > You haven't got a handler for GIF files.  You should be able to put one
> > together with the portable bit map tools.  (See the faxmail man page.)
> 
> To do this you need a script called
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/faxmail/image/gif
> 
> Which does the conversion. I assume it needs to contain the gif2tiff
> command but have not been able to work out the switches that would apply.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
>