Re: flexfax: Timing Out

[Tim Rice <tim@trr.metro.NET>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'm having problems with my faxes not being completed before they time out.
> 
> If I suddenly send large bunch of BIG faxes (I only have a single modem),
> the last ones don't get completed, because they "timedout"
> 	"Your facsimile job to 16139955342 could not be completed before
> 	 the appointed deadline."
> 
> I even did:
> 	sendfax -n -d 16139955342 -k "now +23 hour" document.ps
> expecting the -k to let it go, but it seems that the "timed" out is happening
> before the first transmition, so it doesn't even attempt a first transmition.
> 
> Anything I can do?  I'm probably missing somethign simple, but I just can't
> seem to find it in the sendfax man page.

Maybe you  need to increase the  PostScriptTimeout parameter. 
Check the config(4F) man pages.

A way to test would be to pre convert your postscript document to tif
and then fax it.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Aidan Van Dyk                        aidan@magma.ca
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