flexfax: Sending Faxes from a Client

[Ulrich Eckhardt <Ulrich.Eckhardt@transcom.de>]

Gerry Doris wrote:
>
> I have a working Hylafax server running on a system called leopard.  I can
> access the receive queue and display incoming faxes from a client system called
> panther.
>
> I can log on to leopard from panther and do all the other good things in the
> documentation.  I can even poll fax numbers from the client.  However, I can't
> send faxes from panther.  They just disappear.  Yes, I have gone into
> hosts.hfaxd and added "panther".
>
> I have attached a printout of the results of the following command run on
> panther:
>
> sendfax -vv -d 2945958 -h leopard faxcover.ps
>
> It seems like I'm connecting successfully to the server and the test file
> (faxcover.ps) is sent.  The problem is that the file just disappears.  The
> modem doesn't even try to dial.
>
> BTW, I can successfully send faxes from another client to the same server
> running win98 using whfc.
>
> Any clues on what I'm missing??
 
Hi,
 
can you view faxcover.ps via ghostview ? If faxcover.ps is the
standard HylaFAX faxcover, then this is not a valid postscript file.
Just try to send a plain ASCII file, for example
sendfax -d xxx -h leopard /etc/hosts
 
Uli
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