Re: flexfax: How stable is Hylafax 4.1 beta2 ?

[darren@hylafax.org]

>>>>> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, "BP" == Bernd Proissl wrote:

  BP> this is not the most recent version! there is a more recent version which
  BP> fixes two more bugs. definitely use the more recent version. maybe it was
  BP> only posted to the hylafax-devel and there seems to be no archive for
  BP> hylafax-devel list? if you want i can mail you the patches.

Hopefully we'll have an archive of this list soon!

  BP> if you do mass faxing or "real" business faxing it is serious (at least
  BP> for me): imaging you recipients watching their fax machines printing
  BP> the same page of your fax multiple times and then ending up in an
  BP> error. Some minutes later hylfax tries to re-send the fax again, ... if
  BP> you run beta2 in class 1 with an USR Sportser you will be able to send
  BP> single page faxes to most machines, but if you send multi page faxes to
  BP> certain machines (at least canon) you will also end up with RTNs!! i just
  BP> verified this last night.

It depends on the modem you use. RTNs are rare with Multitechs, IIRC.


  +> Is there a new binary planned with Dmitry Bely's patch ?

There is a new binary planned for beta-3, which will contain the RTN fix.

-Darren