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

[Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de]

Ramana Juvvadi wrote:
    
    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.

Once again: the ERROR isn't the missing symlink in your
package, the REAL ERROR is not using faxsetup(1M) after
installing the binaries; BTW: there also hooks in
faxsetup(1M) if you have to do special tasks on some
UNIX types.
    
    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
    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. 
    
faxaddmodem(1M) takes the RS-232 specified on the command
line or prompted for and tries to test the modem and check
if the modem is ready for use (e.g. answers to AT-cmds),
checks the modem model (to use a prototype config file)
and tries to create a modem config file exactly for this
type of modem. If the modem doesn't work with faxaddmodem(1M)
there is less hope that it will work with HylaFAX.
If faxaddmodem(1M) doesn't work on RH Linux one should fix
this script. PERIOD.

	matthias