Re: flexfax: HylaFax: PostScript recognized as text - why?

[Super-User <root@peach.asiainter.net>]

when you send a postscript file, are you just cut/pasting the text? or
sending it as a postscript MIME type?  sending it as pure text will make
fax barf, coz it doesn't use magic to detect a ps message.  it's dumb and
has to watch the mime do his act in the street.



On 25 Aug 1997, Stefan Schober wrote:
> It seems to me, as if Postscript data, sent to the fax server, is
> recognized as text and so will be converted to postscript via the
> "textfmt" command.
> 
> If I have a look at the files in docq, I see something like:
> 
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> %%Creator: HylaFAX TextFmt Class
> %%Title: 
> %%CreationDate: Mon Aug 25 00:54:17 1997
> %%For: stenny
> 
> 	[...]
> 	
> B(%!PS-Adobe-2.0)S
> B(%%Creator: dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software)S
> 
> 	[...]
> 	
> I recognize a similar effect, when I trie to send a fax via my
> mail2fax gateway. I installed the script and patched my sendmail.cf
> according to the documentation in the appropriate script file.
> 
> Everythings seems to work, apart from the effect, that every message,
> I send to the fax server via the mail gateway will result in a
> postscript file treated as text. If I send a plain ascii file to the
> fax server, it is converted in the expected way.