RE: flexfax: Problems with textfmt on SuSE Linux 6.4

["Bernd Proissl" <news@proissl.de>]

>
> Hi,
>
> the textfmt programm of hylafax does not work on soon shipping SuSE
> Linux 6.4. All attemps to send an ascii file with sendfax will end in
> faxq eating up all cpu load and nothing is sent. Because of very
> little time and big stress, we decided to do not put hylafax on
> 6.4. At the moment of mastering we had no solution, we even did not
> know where the problem was.
>
> To give a quick solution, I made a typerules file, that does not use
> textfmt, but an a2ps wrapper, that converts ascii to ps. I attached
> both, the typerules file and the a2pswrap shellscript to this
> mail. It's only a quick hack, but it seems to work best.
>
> P.S.: SuSE Linux 6.4 is based on glibc 2.1.3.
>       Compiler gcc 2.95.2
>       Ghostscript 5.50
>       libtiff-3.5.4
>       libjpeg-6.2.0
afaik there is a problem with libtiff-3.5.x which has been reported on this
list.
but no solution yet.

Bernd


> Maybe somebody there are already known problems?
>
>
> I am very sorry, that I was not able to provide this solution in time.
>
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