Re: flexfax: Cover Page only

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

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On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Dave Itter wrote:

> hylafax-v4.0pl1 under redhat linux 2.0.33 gcc 2.7.2.3.f.1
> 
> I have checked through all the man pages, and mailing list archives and
> couldn't find anywhere on how to send just the cover page. I have a cover
> page made, which allows a comments field, and would like to be able to send
> out just that, with no additional pages. 
> 
> If I don't specify a file at the end of the command line it just hangs
> (trying to read in from the file, and append to the tmpfile). A strace looks
> like this:

The answer, as irksome as it is, is to generate a coverpage by hand
and send only that using the sendfax command. This got automated into
the sfax command, I believe. Take a look at
ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/contrib/sfax for a workable technique.

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

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