Re: flexfax: fax standards and Hylafax on NT

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Buday Gergely wrote:

> I'm looking for standards about faxing. I've found RFC 804 for Group 3
> Faxing,
> but still looking for a description of  TIFF class F, Group 4 (ISDN)
> fax,
> and so on. I'm new to faxing, so interested in an introduction to fax
> internals, list
> of relevant file formats, etc.

Well, the TIFF source is available at ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/
Since it was written by Sam Leffler, I think it's pretty definitive.

> Thanks for the people suggesting fax sw on NT, but I'm still curious
> about
> compiling HylaFAX on NT. I've never tried it since I don't have a C++
> compiler
> yet (which one do you recommend?), but it seems that a fax sw has
> a few Unix specific things - maybe I'm wrong. So, what can be the
> difficulties
> abou compiling HylaFax on NT?

"Gee, all cars use hydrocarbons for fuel. Why can't my diesel car run
on gasoline?"

I'm sorry, that was harsh. The file structure, network protocols, and
entire underpinnings of the operating software are ***VASTLY***
different. And since Micro$not hides a lot of its real behavior and
code, even from people with developer's licenses, it could be (IMHO) a
nightmare to port something stable to.

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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