Re: flexfax: Help regarding Hylafax software

[Damian Ivereigh <damian@cisco.com>]

Harsha,

I think you need to find a local unix guru and ask him, I have feeling
the answer I am going to give, won't make too much sense. A tar file is
an archive of many files (rather like zip). However win95 won't read it
except maybe with some utility that I am not familiar with. Your best
bet would be to find a unix machine (probably your shell account) and
then type

tar xvf hylafax-v4.0pl0-tar

(presuming you have copied the file into your current directory).

By the way, I hope you weren't expecting to actually compile and use
Hylafax under Win95 - it won't work.

If you're a student, I'm surprised you haven't trashed win95, in favour
of Linux - far more educational. :-)

Hylafax will run fine under Linux of course.

Damian

HARSHA P.RAVNIKAR wrote:
> 
> Sir,
>   I'm writing a program to send and receive fax messasges for my college
> assignment. I have downloaded a file "hylafax-v4.0pl0-tar.gz" from
> ftp.sgi.com sgi/fax/source , which contains file "hylafax-v4.0pl0-tar".
> I'm running win95 and there are no default viewers for this file. Which
> program shall I use to view this file ? How to extract the source code
> from this file ?
> 
> I'm accessing this FTP site with a shell account. How to view the text
> files without "get"ing them to my account ?
> 
> Harsha
> Bangalore, India
> email : hpr94gk@giasbga.vsnl.net.in