Re: flexfax: RPM: document conversion script was not found

[Steve Williams <steve@genie96.com>]

> 
> Steve Williams writes:
> 
>  > called ps2fax, that should fire up ghostscript.  Either it's missing,
>  > or what it is doing is wrong.  Try to run this program by hand.  There is
>  > a man page ( I believe ) for ps2fax ( NOTE I believe you have to be in the 
>  > $FAXSPOOL directory when you run ps2fax )
> 
> Actually, this was an error in my rpm. I should have included
> a symbolic link ps2fax --> ps2fax.gs in /var/spool/hyla/bin.
> I will fix it in the next release of the rpm.
> 
> The ModemClass: 2 was also introduced by me in the rpm. It will be
> removed in the next release. As a clueless user I typed 2 when 
> faxsetup asked for ModemClass. Basically I copied the config
> file faxsetup generated for me. 
> 
> I have no complaints about faxsetup. However, the information
> that  faxsetup probes and finds out doesn't vary across
> Readhat Linux systems. It is the information that faxaddmodem

Ummm, it might have caught the problem with ps2fax, because I know it 
checks for the PS RIP, and makes the appropriate link.


> is trying to find out that is likely to vary from 
> machine to machine. Unfortuantely, that is the information
> that is most difficult to find out by probing. I don't
> mean to complain about the program as such. I just think
> that it is difficult for any program to assure that
> probing a modem works reliably. I don't see how
> a programmer can test his program on hundreds of 
> models. 
> 
> Ramana
> 
> 


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